Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 1 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 . | Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 1 The Dawn Of A Gala Day To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire and in that shire there was a town and in that town there was a house and in that house there was a room and in that room there was a bed and in that bed there lay a little girl wide awake and longing to get up but not daring to do so for fear of the unseen power in the next room - a certain Betty whose slumbers must not be disturbed until six o clock struck when she wakened of herself as sure as clockwork and left the household very little peace afterwards. It was a June morning and early as it was the room was full of sunny warmth and light. On the drawers opposite to the little white dimity bed in which Molly Gibson lay was a primitive kind of bonnet-stand on which was hung a bonnet carefully covered over from any chance of dust with a large cotton handkerchief of so heavy and serviceable a texture that if the thing underneath it had been a flimsy fabric of gauze and lace and flowers it would have been altogether scromfished again to quote from Betty s vocabulary . But the bonnet was made of solid straw and its only trimming was a plain white ribbon put over the crown and forming the strings. Still there was a neat little quilling inside every plait of which Molly knew for had she not made it herself the evening before with infinite pains and was there not a little blue bow in this quilling the very first bit of such finery Molly had ever had the prospect of wearing Six o clock now the pleasant brisk ringing of the church bells told that calling every one to their daily work as they had done for hundreds of years. Up jumped Molly and ran with her bare little feet across the room and lifted off the handkerchief and saw once again the bonnet the pledge of the gay bright day to come. Then to the window and after some tugging she opened the casement and let in the sweet morning air. The dew was already off the flowers in
