Camille ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS CHAPTER 3 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 3 At one o clock on the 16th I went to the Rue d Antin. The voice of the auctioneer could be heard from the outer door. The rooms were crowded with people. There were all the celebrities of the most elegant impropriety furtively examined by certain great ladies who had again seized the opportunity of the sale in order to be able to see close at hand women whom they might never have another occasion of meeting and whom they envied perhaps in secret for their easy pleasures. The Duchess of F. elbowed Mlle. A. one of the most melancholy examples of our modern courtesan the Marquis de T. hesitated over a piece of furniture the price of which was being run high by Mme. D. the most elegant and famous adulteress of our time the Duke of Y. who in Madrid is supposed to be ruining himself in Paris and in Paris to be ruining himself in Madrid and who as a matter of fact never even reaches the limit of his income talked with Mme. M. one of our wittiest story-tellers who from time to time writes what she says and signs what she writes while at the same time he exchanged confidential glances with Mme. de N. a fair ornament of the Champs-Elysees almost always dressed in pink or blue and driving two big black horses which Tony had sold her for 10 000 francs and for which she had paid after her fashion finally Mlle. R. who makes by her mere talent twice what the women of the world make by their dot and three times as much as the others make by their amours had come in spite of the cold to make some purchases and was not the least looked at among the crowd. We might cite the initials of many more of those who found themselves not without some mutual surprise side by side in one room. But we fear to weary the reader. We will only add that everyone was in the highest spirits and that many of those present had known the dead woman and seemed quite oblivious of the fact. There was a sound of loud laughter the auctioneers shouted at the top of their .
