tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-JULES VERNE- THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND -CHAPTER 8

JULES VERNE- THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 8 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 . | JULES VERNE THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 8 Neb did not move. Pencroft only uttered one word. Living he cried. Neb did not reply. Spilett and the sailor turned pale. Herbert clasped his hands and remained motionless. The poor Negro absorbed in his grief evidently had neither seen his companions nor heard the sailor speak. The reporter knelt down beside the motionless body and placed his ear to the engineer s chest having first torn open his clothes. A minute--an age --passed during which he endeavored to catch the faintest throb of the heart. Neb had raised himself a little and gazed without seeing. Despair had completely changed his countenance. He could scarcely be recognized exhausted with fatigue broken with grief. He believed his master was dead. Gideon Spilett at last rose after a long and attentive examination. He lives said he. Pencroft knelt in his turn beside the engineer he also heard a throbbing and even felt a slight breath on his cheek. Herbert at a word from the reporter ran out to look for water. He found a hundred feet off a limpid stream which seemed to have been greatly increased by the rains and which filtered through the sand but nothing in which to put the water not even a shell among the downs. The lad was obliged to content himself with dipping his handkerchief in the stream and with it hastened back to the grotto. Happily the wet handkerchief was enough for Gideon Spilett who only wished to wet the engineer s lips. The cold water produced an almost immediate effect. His chest heaved and he seemed to try to speak. We will save him exclaimed the reporter. At these words hope revived in Neb s heart. He undressed his master to see if he was wounded but not so much as a bruise was to be found either on the head body or limbs which was surprising as he must have been dashed against the rocks even the hands were uninjured and it was difficult to explain how the engineer showed no traces of the efforts which he must have made to get out of reach of