Ivanhoe- Sir Walter Scott -Chapter 27 (p2) 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 27 p2 Cedric would have enquired farther into the purpose which she thus darkly announced but the stern voice of Front-de-Boeuf was heard exclaiming Where tarries this loitering priest By the scallop-shell of Compostella I will make a martyr of him if he loiters here to hatch treason among my domestics What a true prophet said Ulrica is an evil conscience But heed him not---out and to thy people---Cry your Saxon onslaught and let them sing their war-song of Rollo if they will vengeance shall bear a burden to it. As she thus spoke she vanished through a private door and Reginald Front-de-Boeuf entered the apartment. Cedric with some difficulty compelled himself to make obeisance to the haughty Baron who returned his courtesy with a slight inclination of the head. Thy penitents father have made a long shrift it is the better for them since it is the last they shall ever make. Hast thou prepared them for death I found them said Cedric in such French as he could command expecting the worst from the moment they knew into whose power they had fallen. How now Sir Friar replied Front-de-Boeuf thy speech methinks smacks of a Saxon tongue I was bred in the convent of St Withold of Burton answered Cedric. Ay said the Baron it had been better for thee to have been a Norman and better for my purpose too but need has no choice of messengers. That St Withold s of Burton is a howlet s nest worth the harrying. The day will soon come that the frock shall protect the Saxon as little as the mail-coat. God s will be done said Cedric in a voice tremulous with passion which Front-de-Boeuf imputed to fear. I see said he thou dreamest already that our men-at-arms are in thy refectory and thy ale-vaults. But do me one cast of thy holy office and come what list of others thou shalt sleep as safe in thy cell as a snail within his shell of proof. Speak your commands said Cedric with suppressed emotion. Follow me through this passage then that I may dismiss thee
