Night and Day Virginia Woolf Chapter 16 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 . | Night and Day Virginia Woolf Chapter 16 Into that same black night almost indeed into the very same layer of starlit air Katharine Hilbery was now gazing although not with a view to the prospects of a fine day for duck shooting on the morrow. She was walking up and down a gravel path in the garden of Stogdon House her sight of the heavens being partially intercepted by the light leafless hoops of a pergola. Thus a spray of clematis would completely obscure Cassiopeia or blot out with its black pattern myriads of miles of the Milky Way. At the end of the pergola however there was a stone seat from which the sky could be seen completely swept clear of any earthly interruption save to the right indeed where a line of elm-trees was beautifully sprinkled with stars and a low stable building had a full drop of quivering silver just issuing from the mouth of the chimney. It was a moonless night but the light of the stars was sufficient to show the outline of the young woman s form and the shape of her face gazing gravely indeed almost sternly into the sky. She had come out into the winter s night which was mild enough not so much to look with scientific eyes upon the stars as to shake herself free from certain purely terrestrial discontents. Much as a literary person in like circumstances would begin absent-mindedly pulling out volume after volume so she stepped into the garden in order to have the stars at hand even though she did not look at them. Not to be happy when she was supposed to be happier than she would ever be again--that as far as she could see was the origin of a discontent which had begun almost as soon as she arrived two days before and seemed now so intolerable that she had left the family party and come out here to consider it by herself. It was not she who thought herself unhappy but her cousins who thought it for her. The house was full of cousins much of her age or even younger and among them they had some terribly bright eyes. They seemed always on
