THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 9 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 MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 9 The Tempter Ay Prince said Aramis turning in the carriage towards his companion weak creature as I am so unpretending in genius so low in the scale of intelligent beings it has never yet happened to me to converse with a man without penetrating his thoughts through that living mask which has been thrown over our mind in order to retain its expression. But to-night in this darkness in the reserve which you maintain I can read nothing on your features and something tells me that I shall have great difficulty in wresting from you a sincere declaration. I beseech you then not for love of me - for subjects should never weigh as anything in the balance which princes hold - but for love of yourself to attend to every syllable I may utter and to every tone of my voice - which under our present grave circumstances will all have a sense and value as important as any words ever spoken in the world. I listen repeated the young Prince decidedly without either eagerly seeking or fearing anything you are about to say to me and he sank still deeper in the thick cushions of the carriage trying to deprive his companion not only of the sight of him but even of the very idea of his presence. Black was the darkness which fell wide and dense from the summits of the intertwining trees. The carriage covered in by this vast roof would not have received a particle of light not even if a ray could have struggled through the wreaths of mist which were rising in the avenue of the wood. Monseigneur resumed Aramis you know the history of the government which to-day controls France. The King issued from an infancy imprisoned like yours obscure as yours and confined as yours only instead of enduring like yourself this slavery in a prison this obscurity in solitude these straitened circumstances in concealment he has borne all these miseries humiliations and distresses in full daylight under the pitiless sun of royalty - on an elevation so flooded
