TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 38 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 . | TWENTY YEARS AFTER ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 38 38. Henrietta Maria and Mazarin. The cardinal rose and advanced in haste to receive the queen of England. He showed the more respect to this queen deprived of every mark of pomp and stripped of followers as he felt some self-reproach for his own want of heart and his avarice. But supplicants for favor know how to accommodate the expression of their features and the daughter of Henry IV. smiled as she advanced to meet a man she hated and despised. Ah said Mazarin to himself what a sweet face does she come to borrow money of me And he threw an uneasy glance at his strong box he even turned inside the bevel of the magnificent diamond ring the brilliancy of which drew every eye upon his hand which indeed was white and handsome. Your eminence said the august visitor it was my first intention to speak of the matters that have brought me here to the queen my sister but I have reflected that political affairs are more especially the concern of men. Madame said Mazarin your majesty overwhelms me with flattering distinction. He is very gracious thought the queen can he have guessed my errand Give continued the cardinal your commands to the most respectful of your servants. Alas sir replied the queen I have lost the habit of commanding and have adopted instead that of making petitions. I am here to petition you too happy should my prayer be favorably heard. I am listening madame with the greatest interest said Mazarin. Your eminence it concerns the war which the king my husband is now sustaining against his rebellious subjects. You are perhaps ignorant that they are fighting in England added she with a melancholy smile and that in a short time they will fight in a much more decided fashion than they have done hitherto. I am completely ignorant of it madame said the cardinal accompanying his words with a slight shrug of the shoulders alas our own wars quite absorb the time and the mind of a poor incapable infirm old minister like .
