The Black Tulip ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 3 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 Black Tulip ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 3 3. The Pupil of John de Witt Whilst the clamour of the crowd in the square of Buytenhof which grew more and more menacing against the two brothers determined John de Witt to hasten the departure of his brother Cornelius a deputation of burghers had gone to the Town-hall to demand the withdrawal of Tilly s horse. It was not far from the Buytenhof to Hoogstraet High Street and a stranger who since the beginning of this scene had watched all its incidents with intense interest was seen to wend his way with or rather in the wake of the others towards the Town-hall to hear as soon as possible the current news of the hour. This stranger was a very young man of scarcely twenty-two or three with nothing about him that bespoke any great energy. He evidently had his good reasons for not making himself known as he hid his face in a handkerchief of fine Frisian linen with which he incessantly wiped his brow or his burning lips. With an eye keen as that of a bird of prey -- with a long aquiline nose a finely cut mouth which he generally kept open or rather which was gaping like the edges of a wound -- this man would have presented to Lavater if Lavater had lived at that time a subject for physiognomical observations which at the first blush would not have been very favourable to the person in question. What difference is there between the figure of the conqueror and that of the pirate said the ancients. The difference only between the eagle and the vulture -- serenity or restlessness. And indeed the sallow physiognomy the thin and sickly body and the prowling ways of the stranger were the very type of a suspecting master or an unquiet thief and a police officer would certainly have decided in favour of the latter supposition on account of the great care which the mysterious person evidently took to hide himself. He was plainly dressed and apparently unarmed his arm was lean but wiry and his hands dry but of an aristocratic whiteness and
