Ivanhoe -Sir Walter Scott -Chapter 22 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott Chapter 22 My daughter-O my ducats-O my daughter ----------O my Christian ducats Justice-the Law-my ducats and my daughter Merchant of Venice Leaving the Saxon chiefs to return to their banquet as soon as their ungratified curiosity should permit them to attend to the calls of their halfsatiated appetite we have to look in upon the yet more severe imprisonment of Isaac of York. The poor Jew had been hastily thrust into a dungeon-vault of the castle the floor of which was deep beneath the level of the ground and very damp being lower than even the moat itself. The only light was received through one or two loop-holes far above the reach of the captive s hand. These apertures admitted even at mid-day only a dim and uncertain light which was changed for utter darkness long before the rest of the castle had lost the blessing of day. Chains and shackles which had been the portion of former captives from whom active exertions to escape had been apprehended hung rusted and empty on the walls of the prison and in the rings of one of those sets of fetters there remained two mouldering bones which seemed to have been once those of the human leg as if some prisoner had been left not only to perish there but to be consumed to a skeleton. At one end of this ghastly apartment was a large fire-grate over the top of which were stretched some transverse iron bars half devoured with rust. The whole appearance of the dungeon might have appalled a stouter heart than that of Isaac who nevertheless was more composed under the imminent pressure of danger than he had seemed to be while affected by terrors of which the cause was as yet remote and contingent. The lovers of the chase say that the hare feels more agony during the pursuit of the greyhounds than when she is struggling in their fangs. Nota Bene. We by no means warrant the accuracy of this piece of natural history which we give on the authority of the Wardour MS. L. T. And thus it is probable that the .
