A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 1 CHAPTER 16 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 16 UNCLE AND NIECE Mr. Bullsom was an early riser and it chanced that as was frequently the case on the morning following Brooks visit he and Mary sat down to breakfast together. But when after a cursory glance through his letters he unfolded the paper she stopped him. Uncle she said I want to talk to you for a few minutes if I may. Go ahead he answered. No fear of our being interrupted. I shall speak to those girls seriously about getting up. Now what is it I want to earn my own living uncle she said quietly. He looked over his spectacles at her. Eh I want to earn my own living she repeated. I have been looking about for a means of doing so and I think that I have succeeded. Mr. Bullsom took off his spectacles and wiped them carefully. Earn your own living eh he repeated. Well Go on Mary leaned across the table towards him. Don t think that I am not grateful for all you have done for me uncle she said. I am indeed. Only I have felt lately that it was my duty to order my life a little differently. I am young and strong and able to work. There is no reason why I should be a burden upon any one. She found his quietness ominous but she did not flinch. I am not accomplished enough for a governess or good-tempered enough for a companion she continued but I believe I have found something which I can do. I have written several short stories for a woman s magazine and they have made me a sort of offer to do some regular work for them. What they offer would just keep me. I want to accept. Where should you live he asked. In London Alone There is a girls club in Chelsea somewhere. I should go there at first and then try and share rooms with another girl. How much a week will they give you Twenty-eight shillings and I shall be allowed to contribute regularly to the magazine at the usual rates. I ought to make at least forty shillings a week. Mr. Bullsom sighed. Is this owing to any disagreement between you and the girls he
