LEV TOLSTOY SHORT STORY 7 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 . | LEV TOLSTOY SHORT STORY An Old Acquaintance Prince Nekhiludof Relates how during an Expedition in the Caucasus he met an Acquaintance from Moscow Our division had been out in the field. The work in hand was accomplished we had cut a way through the forest and each day we were expecting from headquarters orders for our return to the fort. Our division of fieldpieces was stationed at the top of a steep mountain- crest which was terminated by the swift mountain-river Mechik and had to command the plain that stretched before us. Here and there on this picturesque plain out of the reach of gunshot now and then especially at evening groups of mounted mountaineers showed themselves attracted by curiosity to ride up and view the Russian camp. The evening was clear mild and fresh as it is apt to be in December in the Caucasus the sun was setting behind the steep chain of the mountains at the left and threw rosy rays upon the tents scattered over the slope upon the soldiers moving about and upon our two guns which seemed to crane their necks as they rested motionless on the earthwork two paces from us. The infantry picket stationed on the knoll at the left stood in perfect silhouette against the light of the sunset no less distinct were the stacks of muskets the form of the sentry the groups of soldiers and the smoke of the smouldering camp-fire. At the right and left of the slope on the black sodden earth the tents gleamed white and behind the tents black stood the bare trunks of the platane forest which rang with the incessant sound of axes the crackling of the bonfires and the crashing of the trees as they fell under the axes. The bluish smoke arose from tobacco-pipes on all sides and vanished in the transparent blue of the frosty sky. By the tents and on the lower ground around the arms rushed the Cossacks dragoons and artillerists with great galloping and snorting of horses as they returned from getting water. It began to freeze all sounds were heard with extraordinary
