Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 2-P1 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 2-P1 A Novice Amongst The Great Folk At ten o clock on the eventful Thursday the Towers carriage began its work. Molly was ready long before it made its first appearance although it had been settled that she and the Miss Brownings were not to go until the last or fourth time of its coming. Her face had been soaped scrubbed and shone brilliantly clean her frills her frock her ribbons were all snow-white. She had on a black mode cloak that had been her mother s it was trimmed round with rich lace and looked quaint and old-fashioned on the child. For the first time in her life she wore kid gloves hitherto she had only had cotton ones. Her gloves were far too large for the little dimpled fingers but as Betty had told her they were to last her for years it was all very well. She trembled many a time and almost turned faint once with the long expectation of the morning. Berry might say what she liked about a watched pot never boiling Molly never ceased to watch the approach through the winding street and after two hours the carriage came for her at last. She had to sit very forward to avoid crushing the Miss Brownings new dresses and yet not too forward for fear of incommoding fat Mrs Goodenough and her niece who occupied the front seat of the carriage so that altogether the fact of sitting down at all was rather doubtful and to add to her discomfort Molly felt herself to be very conspicuously placed in the centre of the carriage a mark for all the observation of Hollingford. It was far too much of a gala day for the work of the little town to go forward with its usual regularity. Maid-servants gazed out of upper windows shopkeepers wives stood on the doorsteps cottagers ran out with babies in their arms and little children too young to know how to behave respectfully at the sight of an earl s carriage huzzaed merrily as it bowled along. The woman at the lodge held the gate open and dropped a low curtsey to the liveries. And
