Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 5-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 5-P2 Mr Wynne knows all I feel for Miss Gibson sir. He and I have no secrets from each other. Well I suppose he must represent the reeds. You know the story of King Midas s barber who found out that his royal master had the ears of an ass beneath his hyacinthine curls. So the barber in default of a Mr Wynne went to the reeds that grew on the shores of a neighbouring lake and whispered to them King Midas has the ears of an ass. But he repeated it so often that the reeds learnt the words and kept on saying them all the day long till at the last the secret was no secret at all. If you keep on telling your tale to Mr Wynne are you sure he won t repeat it in his turn If I pledge my word as a gentleman sir I pledge it for Mr Wynne as well. I suppose I must run the risk. But remember how soon a young girl s name may be breathed upon and sullied. Molly has no mother and for that very reason she ought to move among you all as unharmed as Una herself. Mr Gibson if you wish it I ll swear it on the Bible cried the excitable young man. Nonsense. As if your word if it s worth anything was not enough We ll shake hands upon it if you like. Mr Coxe came forward eagerly and almost squeezed Mr Gibson s ring into his finger. As he was leaving the room he said a little uneasily May I give Bethia a crown-piece No indeed Leave Bethia to me. I hope you won t say another word to her while she is here. I shall see that she gets a respectable place when she goes away. Then Mr Gibson rang for his horse and went out on the last visits of the day. He used to reckon that he rode the world around in the course of the year. There were not many surgeons in the county who had so wide a range of practice as he he went to lonely cottages on the borders of great commons to farm-houses at the end of narrow country lanes that led to nowhere else and were overshadowed by the elms and beeches overhead. He attended all the gentry within a circle of fifteen miles
