Night and Day Virginia Woolf 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 . | Night and Day Virginia Woolf Chapter 25 At a quarter-past three in the afternoon of the following Saturday Ralph Denham sat on the bank of the lake in Kew Gardens dividing the dial-plate of his watch into sections with his forefinger. The just and inexorable nature of time itself was reflected in his face. He might have been composing a hymn to the unhasting and unresting march of that divinity. He seemed to greet the lapse of minute after minute with stern acquiescence in the inevitable order. His expression was so severe so serene so immobile that it seemed obvious that for him at least there was a grandeur in the departing hour which no petty irritation on his part was to mar although the wasting time wasted also high private hopes of his own. His face was no bad index to what went on within him. He was in a condition of mind rather too exalted for the trivialities of daily life. He could not accept the fact that a lady was fifteen minutes late in keeping her appointment without seeing in that accident the frustration of his entire life. Looking at his watch he seemed to look deep into the springs of human existence and by the light of what he saw there altered his course towards the north and the midnight. Yes one s voyage must be made absolutely without companions through ice and black water--towards what goal Here he laid his finger upon the half-hour and decided that when the minute-hand reached that point he would go at the same time answering the question put by another of the many voices of consciousness with the reply that there was undoubtedly a goal but that it would need the most relentless energy to keep anywhere in its direction. Still still one goes on the ticking seconds seemed to assure him with dignity with open eyes with determination not to accept the second-rate not to be tempted by the unworthy not to yield not to compromise. Twenty-five minutes past three were now marked upon the face of the watch. The world he assured himself since .
