THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 56 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 56 The Old Age of Athos While all these affairs were separating forever the four musketeers formerly bound together in a manner that seemed indissoluble Athos left alone after the departure of Raoul began to pay his tribute to that death by anticipation which is called the absence of those we love. Returned to his house at Blois no longer having even Grimaud to receive a poor smile when he passed through the parterre Athos daily felt the decline of the vigor of a nature which for so long a time had appeared infallible. Age which had been kept back by the presence of the beloved object arrived with that cortege of pains and inconveniences which increases in proportion as its coming is delayed. Athos had no longer his son s presence to incite him to walk firmly with his head erect as a good example he had no longer in those brilliant eyes of the young man an ever-ardent focus at which to rekindle the fire of his looks. And then it must be said this nature exquisite in its tenderness and its reserve no longer finding anything that comprehended its feelings gave itself up to grief with all the warmth with which vulgar natures give themselves up to joy. The Comte de la Fere who had remained a young man up to his sixty-second year the warrior who had preserved his strength in spite of fatigues his freshness of mind in spite of misfortune his mild serenity of soul and body in spite of Milady in spite of Mazarin in spite of La Valliere - Athos had become an old man in a week from the moment at which he had lost the support of his latter youth. Still handsome though bent noble but sad - gently and tottering under his gray hairs he sought since his solitude the glades where the rays of the sun penetrated through the foliage of the walks. He discontinued all the vigorous exercises he had enjoyed through life since Raoul was no longer with him. The servants accustomed to see him stirring with the dawn at all seasons were .
