Camille ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS CHAPTER 2 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 . | Camille ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS CHAPTER 2 The sale was to take place on the 16th. A day s interval had been left between the visiting days and the sale in order to give time for taking down the hangings curtains etc. I had just returned from abroad. It was natural that I had not heard of Marguerite s death among the pieces of news which one s friends always tell on returning after an absence. Marguerite was a pretty woman but though the life of such women makes sensation enough their death makes very little. They are suns which set as they rose unobserved. Their death when they die young is heard of by all their lovers at the same moment for in Paris almost all the lovers of a well-known woman are friends. A few recollections are exchanged and everybody s life goes on as if the incident had never occurred without so much as a tear. Nowadays at twenty-five tears have become so rare a thing that they are not to be squandered indiscriminately. It is the most that can be expected if the parents who pay for being wept over are wept over in return for the price they pay. As for me though my initials did not occur on any of Marguerite s belongings that instinctive indulgence that natural pity that I have already confessed set me thinking over her death more perhaps than it was worth thinking over. I remembered having often met Marguerite in the Bois where she went regularly every day in a little blue coupe drawn by two magnificent bays and I had noticed in her a distinction quite apart from other women of her kind a distinction which was enhanced by a really exceptional beauty. These unfortunate creatures whenever they go out are always accompanied by somebody or other. As no man cares to make himself conspicuous by being seen in their company and as they are afraid of solitude they take with them either those who are not well enough off to have a carriage or one or another of those elegant ancient ladies whose elegance is a little inexplicable and to whom one can always go
