A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 3 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 . | A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 3 CHAPTER 2 MR. LAVILETTE INTERFERES What is this Kingston Brooks affair that Lavilette has hold of now yawned a man over his evening papers. That fellow will get into trouble if he doesn t mind. Some new sort of charity down in the East End one of the little group of club members replied. Fellow has a lot of branches and tries to make em a sort of family affair. He gets a pile of subscriptions and declines to publish a balancesheet. Lavilette seems to think there s something wrong somewhere. Lavilette s such a suspicious beggar another man remarked. The thing seems all right. I know people who are interested in it who say it s the most comprehensive and common-sense charity scheme of the day. Why doesn t he pitch into Lavilette then Lavilette s awfully insulting. Brooks the other day inserted an acknowledgment in the papers of the receipt of one thousand pounds anonymous. You saw what Lavilette said about it No. What Oh he had a little sarcastic paragraph-declined to believe that Brooks had ever received a thousand pounds anonymously--challenged him to give the number of the note and said plainly that he considered it a fraud. There s been no reply from Brooks. How do you know This week s Verity. Here it is We have received no reply from Mr. Kingston Brooks up to going to press with respect to our remark concerning the thousand pounds alleged to have been received by him from an anonymous giver. We may add that we scarcely expected it. Yet there is another long list of acknowledgments of sums received by Mr. Brooks this morning. We are either the most credulous nation in the world or there are a good many people who don t know what to do with their money. We should like to direct their attention to half-a-dozen excellent and most deserving charities which we can personally recommend and whose accounts will always stand the most vigorous examination. H m That s pretty strong the first speaker remarked. I should think .
