The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 1 CHAPTER 5 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 5 Queen Anne I. Above this couple there was Anne Queen of England. An ordinary woman was Queen Anne. She was gay kindly august--to a certain extent. No quality of hers attained to virtue none to vice. Her stoutness was bloated her fun heavy her good-nature stupid. She was stubborn and weak. As a wife she was faithless and faithful having favourites to whom she gave up her heart and a husband for whom she kept her bed. As a Christian she was a heretic and a bigot. She had one beauty--the well-developed neck of a Niobe. The rest of her person was indifferently formed. She was a clumsy coquette and a chaste one. Her skin was white and fine she displayed a great deal of it. It was she who introduced the fashion of necklaces of large pearls clasped round the throat. She had a narrow forehead sensual lips fleshy cheeks large eyes short sight. Her short sight extended to her mind. Beyond a burst of merriment now and then almost as ponderous as her anger she lived in a sort of taciturn grumble and a grumbling silence. Words escaped from her which had to be guessed at. She was a mixture of a good woman and a mischievous devil. She liked surprises which is extremely woman-like. Anne was a pattern--just sketched roughly--of the universal Eve. To that sketch had fallen that chance the throne. She drank. Her husband was a Dane thoroughbred. A Tory she governed by the Whigs--like a woman like a mad woman. She had fits of rage. She was violent a brawler. Nobody more awkward than Anne in directing affairs of state. She allowed events to fall about as they might chance. Her whole policy was cracked. She excelled in bringing about great catastrophes from little causes. When a whim of authority took hold of her she called it giving a stir with the poker. She would say with an air of profound thought No peer may keep his hat on before the king except De Courcy Baron Kingsale an Irish peer or It would be an injustice were my husband
