tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-JULES VERNE- THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND -CHAPTER 43

JULES VERNE -THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 43 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 43 It was now two years and a half since the castaways from the balloon had been thrown on Lincoln Island and during that period there had been no communication between them and their fellow-creatures. Once the reporter had attempted to communicate with the inhabited world by confiding to a bird a letter which contained the secret of their situation but that was a chance on which it was impossible to reckon seriously. Ayrton alone under the circumstances which have been related had come to join the little colony. Now suddenly on this day the 17th of October other men had unexpectedly appeared in sight of the island on that deserted sea There could be no doubt about it A vessel was there But would she pass on or would she put into port In a few hours the colonists would definitely know what to expect. Cyrus Harding and Herbert having immediately called Gideon Spilett Pencroft and Neb into the dining-room of Granite House told them what had happened. Pencroft seizing the telescope rapidly swept the horizon and stopping on the indicated point that is to say on that which had made the almost imperceptible spot on the photographic negative -- I m blessed but it is really a vessel he exclaimed in a voice which did not express any great amount of satisfaction. Is she coming here asked Gideon Spilett. Impossible to say anything yet answered Pencroft for her rigging alone is above the horizon and not a bit of her hull can be seen. What is to be done asked the lad. Wait replied Harding. And for a considerable time the settlers remained silent given up to all the thoughts and the emotions all the fears all the hopes which were aroused by this incident--the most important which had occurred since their arrival in Lincoln Island. Certainly the colonists were not in the situation of castaways abandoned on a sterile islet constantly contending against a cruel nature for their miserable existence and incessantly tormented by the longing to