Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 3 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 3 Molly Gibson s Childhood Sixteen years before this time all Hollingford had been disturbed to its foundations by the intelligence that Mr Hall the skilful doctor who had attended them all their days was going to take a partner. It was no use reasoning to them on the subject so Mr Browning the vicar Mr Sheepshanks Lord Cumnor s agent and Mr Hall himself the masculine reasoners of the little society left off the attempt feeling that the Che sara sara would prove more silencing to the murmurs than many arguments. Mr Hall had told his faithful patients that even with the strongest spectacles his sight was not to be depended upon and they might have found out for themselves that his hearing was very defective although on this point he obstinately adhered to his own opinion and was frequently heard to regret the carelessness of people s communication nowadays like writing on blotting-paper all the words running into each other he would say. And more than once Mr Hall had had attacks of a suspicious nature - rheumatism he used to call them but he prescribed for himself as if they had been gout - which had prevented his immediate attention to imperative summonses. But blind and deaf and rheumatic as he might be he was still Mr Hall the doctor who could heal all their ailments - unless they died meanwhile - and he had no right to speak of growing old and taking a partner. He went very steadily to work all the same advertising in medical journals reading testimonials sifting character and qualifications and just when the elderly maiden ladies of Hollingford thought that they had convinced their contemporary that he was as young as ever he startled them by bringing his new partner Mr Gibson to call upon them and began slyly as these ladies said to introduce him into practice. And who was this Mr Gibson they asked and echo might answer the question if she liked for no one else did. No one ever in all his life knew anything more .
