Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 4-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 4-P1 Mr Gibson s Neighbours Molly grew up among these quiet people in calm monotony of life without any greater event than that which has been recorded - the being left behind at the Towers until she was nearly seventeen. She had become a visitor at the school but she had never gone again to the annual festival at the great house it was easy to find some excuse for keeping away and the recollection of that day was not a pleasant one on the whole though she often thought how much she should like to see the gardens again. Lady Agnes was married there was only Lady Harriet remaining at home Lord Hollingford the eldest son had lost his wife and was a good deal more at the Towers since he had become a widower. He was a tall ungainly man considered to be as proud as his mother the countess but in fact he was only shy and slow at making commonplace speeches. He did not know what to say to people whose daily habits and interests were not the same as his he would have been very thankful for a handbook of small-talk and would have learnt off his sentences with good-humoured diligence. He often envied the fluency of his garrulous father who delighted in talking to everybody and was perfectly unconscious of the incoherence of his conversation. But owing to his constitutional reserve and shyness Lord Hollingford was not a popular man although his kindness of heart was very great his simplicity of character extreme and his scientific acquirements considerable enough to entitle him to much reputation in the European republic of learned men. In this respect Hollingford was proud of him. The inhabitants knew that the great grave clumsy heir to its fealty was highly esteemed for his wisdom and that he had made one or two discoveries though in what direction they were not quite sure. But it was safe to point him out to strangers visiting the little town as That s Lord Hollingford - the famous Lord Hollingford you know you must have heard
