THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 10 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 . | THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 10 The King s Closet at the Tuileries. We will leave Villefort on the road to Paris travelling -thanks to trebled fees -- with all speed and passing through two or three apartments enter at the Tuileries the little room with the arched window so well known as having been the favorite closet of Napoleon and Louis XVIII. and now of Louis Philippe. There seated before a walnut table he had brought with him from Hartwell and to which from one of those fancies not uncommon to great people he was particularly attached the king Louis XVIII. was carelessly listening to a man of fifty or fifty-two years of age with gray hair aristocratic bearing and exceedingly gentlemanly attire and meanwhile making a marginal note in a volume of Gryphius s rather inaccurate but much sought-after edition of Horace -- a work which was much indebted to the sagacious observations of the philosophical monarch. You say sir -- said the king. That I am exceedingly disquieted sire. Really have you had a vision of the seven fat kine and the seven lean kine No sire for that would only betoken for us seven years of plenty and seven years of scarcity and with a king as full of foresight as your majesty scarcity is not a thing to be feared. Then of what other scourge are you afraid my dear Blacas Sire I have every reason to believe that a storm is brewing in the south. Well my dear duke replied Louis XVIII. I think you are wrongly informed and know positively that on the contrary it is very fine weather in that direction. Man of ability as he was Louis XVIII. liked a pleasant jest. Sire continued M. de Blacas if it only be to reassure a faithful servant will your majesty send into Languedoc Provence and Dauphine trusty men who will bring you back a faithful report as to the feeling in these three provinces Caninus surdis replied the king continuing the annotations in his Horace. Sire replied the courtier laughing in order that he might seem to .
