A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 13 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 . | A Prince of Sinners E Philips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 13 CHARITY THE CRIME There followed a busy time for Brooks the result of which was a very marked improvement in his prospects. For the younger Morrison and his partner loth to lose altogether the valuable Enton connection offered Brooks a partnership in their firm. Mr. Ascough who was Lord Arranmore s London solicitor and had been Brooks guardian after careful consideration advised his acceptance and there being nothing in the way the arrangements were pushed through almost at once. Mr. Ascough on the morning of his return to London took the opportunity warmly to congratulate Brooks. Lord Arranmore has been marvellously kind to me Brooks agreed. To tell you the truth Mr. Ascough I feel almost inclined to add incomprehensibly kind. The older man stroked his grey moustache thoughtfully. Lord Arranmore is eccentric he remarked. Has always been eccentric and will remain so I suppose to the end of the chapter. You are the one who profits however and I am very glad of it. Eccentricity Brooks remarked is of course the only obvious explanation of his generosity so far as I am concerned. But it has occurred to me Mr. Ascough to wonder whether the friendship or connection between him and my father was in any way a less slight thing than I have been led to suppose. Mr. Ascough shrugged his shoulders. Lord Arranmore he said has told you no doubt all that there is to be told. Brooks sat at his desk frowning slightly and tapping the blotting-paper with a pen-holder. All that Lord Arranmore has told me he said is that my father occupied a cabin not far from his on the banks of Lake Ono that they saw little of each other and that he only found out his illness by accident. That my father then disclosed his name gave him his papers and your address. There was merely the casual intercourse between two Englishmen coming together in a strange country. That is what I have always understood Mr. Ascough agreed. Have you any reason to
