The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 1 CHAPTER 2 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 . | The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 1 CHAPTER 2 Lord David Dirry-Moir i. Lord Linneus Clancharlie had not always been old and proscribed he had had his phase of youth and passion. We know from Harrison and Pride that Cromwell when young loved women and pleasure a taste which at times another reading of the text Woman betrays a seditious man. Distrust the loosely-clasped girdle. Male proecinctam juvenem cavete. Lord Clancharlie like Cromwell had had his wild hours and his irregularities. He was known to have had a natural child a son. This son was born in England in the last days of the republic just as his father was going into exile. Hence he had never seen his father. This bastard of Lord Clancharlie had grown up as page at the court of Charles II. He was styled Lord David Dirry-Moir he was a lord by courtesy his mother being a woman of quality. The mother while Lord Clancharlie was becoming an owl in Switzerland made up her mind being a beauty to give over sulking and was forgiven that Goth her first lover by one undeniably polished and at the same time a royalist for it was the king himself. She had been but a short time the mistress of Charles II. sufficiently long however to have made his Majesty--who was delighted to have won so pretty a woman from the republic--bestow on the little Lord David the son of his conquest the office of keeper of the stick which made that bastard officer boarded at the king s expense by a natural revulsion of feeling an ardent adherent of the Stuarts. Lord David was for some time one of the hundred and seventy wearing the great sword while afterwards entering the corps of pensioners he became one of the forty who bear the gilded halberd. He had besides being one of the noble company instituted by Henry VIII. as a bodyguard the privilege of laying the dishes on the king s table. Thus it was that whilst his father was growing gray in exile Lord David prospered under Charles II. After which he prospered under James II. The .
