Wives and Daughters ELIZABETH GASKELL CHAPTER 25 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 25 Hollingford In A Bustle All Hollingford felt as if there was a great deal to be done before Easter this year. There was Easter proper which always required new clothing of some kind for fear of certain consequences from little birds who were supposed to resent the impiety of those who do not wear some new article of dress on Easter-day. And most ladies considered it wiser that the little birds should see the new article for themselves and not have to take it upon trust as they would have to do if it were merely a pocket-handkerchief or a petticoat or any article of under-clothing. So piety demanded a new bonnet or a new gown and was barely satisfied with an Easter pair of gloves. Miss Rose was generally very busy just before Easter in Hollingford. Then this year there was the charity ball. Ashcombe Hollingford and Coreham were three neighbouring towns of about the same number of population lying at the three equidistant corners of a triangle. In imitation of greater cities with their festivals these three towns had agreed to have an annual ball for the benefit of the county hospital to be held in turn at each place and Hollingford was to be the place this year. It was a fine time for hospitality and every house of any pretension was as full as it could hold and flys were engaged long months before. If Mrs Gibson could have asked Osborne or in default Roger Hamley to go to the ball with them and to sleep at their house - or if indeed she could have picked up any stray scion of a county family to whom such an offer would have been a convenience she would have restored her own dressing-room to its former use as the spare-room with pleasure. But she did not think it was worth her while to put herself out for any of the humdrum and ill-dressed women who had been her former acquaintance at Ashcombe. For Mr Preston it might have been worth while to give up her room considering him in the light of a handsome and prosperous .
