Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 2-P2 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-P2 There was a large party of gentlemen and ladies sitting round the decked table in the brilliantly lighted room. Each dainty little child ran up to its mother or aunt or particular friend but Molly had no one to go to. Who is that tall girl in the thick white frock Not one of the children of the house I think The lady addressed put up her glass gazed at Molly and dropped it in an instant. A French girl I should imagine. I know Lady Cuxhaven was inquiring for one to bring up with her little girls that they might get a good accent early. Poor little woman she looks wild and strange And the speaker who sate next to Lord Cumnor made a little sign to Molly to come to her Molly crept up to her as to the first shelter but when the lady began talking to her in French she blushed violently and said in a very low voice - I don t understand French. I m only Molly Gibson ma am. Molly Gibson said the lady out loud as if that was not much of an explanation. Lord Cumnor caught the words and the tone. Oh ho said he. Are you the little girl who has been sleeping in my bed He imitated the deep voice of the fabulous bear who asks this question of the little child in the story but Molly had never read the Three Bears and fancied that his anger was real she trembled a little and drew nearer to the kind lady who had beckoned her as to a refuge. Lord Cumnor was very fond of getting hold of what he fancied was a joke and working his idea threadbare so all the time the ladies were in the room he kept on his running fire at Molly alluding to the Sleeping Beauty the Seven Sleepers and any other famous sleeper that came into his head. He had no idea of the misery his jokes were to the sensitive girl who already thought herself a miserable sinner for having slept on when she ought to have been awake. If Molly had been in the habit of putting two and two together she might have found an excuse for herself by remembering that Mrs Kirkpatrick had
