Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 4-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 4-P2 Mrs Hamley was a great reader and had considerable literary taste. She was gentle and sentimental tender and good. She gave up her visits to London she gave up her sociable pleasure in the company of her fellows in education and position. Her husband owing to the deficiencies of his early years disliked associating with those to whom he ought to have been an equal he was too proud to mingle with his inferiors. He loved his wife all the more dearly for her sacrifices for him but deprived of all her strong interests she sank into ill-health nothing definite only she never was well. Perhaps if she had had a daughter it would have been better for her but her two children were boys and their father anxious to give them the advantages of which he himself had suffered the deprivation sent the lads very early to a preparatory school. They were to go on to Rugby and Cambridge the idea of Oxford was hereditarily distasteful in the Hamley family. Osborne the eldest - so called after his mother s maiden name - was full of tastes and had some talent. His appearance had all the grace and refinement of his mother s. He was sweet-tempered and affectionate almost as demonstrative as a girl. He did well at school carrying away many prizes and was in a word the pride and delight of both father and mother the confidential friend of the latter in default of any other. Roger was two years younger than Osborne clumsy and heavily built like his father his face was square and the expression grave and rather immobile. He was good but dull his schoolmasters said. He won no prizes but brought home a favourable report of his conduct. When he caressed his mother she used laughingly to allude to the fable of the lap-dog and the donkey so thereafter he left off all personal demonstration of affection. It was a great question as to whether he was to follow his brother to college after he left Rugby. Mrs Hamley thought it would be rather a throwing
