The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 1 CHAPTER 6 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 6 Barkilphedro It is useful to know what people do and a certain surveillance is wise. Josiana had Lord David watched by a little creature of hers in whom she reposed confidence and whose name was Barkilphedro. Lord David had Josiana discreetly observed by a creature of his of whom he was sure and whose name was Barkilphedro. Queen Anne on her part kept herself secretly informed of the actions and conduct of the Duchess Josiana her bastard sister and of Lord David her future brother-inlaw by the left hand by a creature of hers on whom she counted fully and whose name was Barkilphedro. This Barkilphedro had his fingers on that keyboard--Josiana Lord David a queen. A man between two women. What modulations possible What amalgamation of souls Barkilphedro had not always held the magnificent position of whispering into three ears. He was an old servant of the Duke of York. He had tried to be a churchman but had failed. The Duke of York an English and a Roman prince compounded of royal Popery and legal Anglicanism had his Catholic house and his Protestant house and might have pushed Barkilphedro in one or the other hierarchy but he did not judge him to be Catholic enough to make him almoner or Protestant enough to make him chaplain. So that between two religions Barkilphedro found himself with his soul on the ground. Not a bad posture either for certain reptile souls. Certain ways are impracticable except by crawling flat on the belly. An obscure but fattening servitude had long made up Barkilphedro s whole existence. Service is something but he wanted power besides. He was perhaps about to reach it when James II. fell. He had to begin all over again. Nothing to do under William III. a sullen prince and exercising in his mode of reigning a prudery which he believed to be probity. Barkilphedro when his protector James II. was dethroned did not lapse all at once into rags. There is a something which survives deposed .
