tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-JULES VERNE -THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND -CHAPTER 49

JULES VERNE THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 49 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 49 At Herbert s cry Pencroft letting his gun fall rushed towards him. They have killed him he cried. My boy They have killed him Cyrus Harding and Gideon Spilett ran to Herbert. The reporter listened to ascertain if the poor lad s heart was still beating. He lives said he but he must be carried-- To Granite House that is impossible replied the engineer. Into the corral then said Pencroft. In a moment said Harding. And he ran round the left corner of the palisade. There he found a convict who aiming at him sent a ball through his hat. In a few seconds before he had even time to fire his second barrel he fell struck to the heart by Harding s dagger more sure even than his gun. During this time Gideon Spilett and the sailor hoisted themselves over the palisade leaped into the enclosure threw down the props which supported the inner door ran into the empty house and soon poor Herbert was lying on Ayrton s bed. In a few moments Harding was by his side. On seeing Herbert senseless the sailor s grief was terrible. He sobbed he cried he tried to beat his head against the wall. Neither the engineer nor the reporter could calm him. They themselves were choked with emotion. They could not speak. However they knew that it depended on them to rescue from death the poor boy who was suffering beneath their eyes. Gideon Spilett had not passed through the many incidents by which his life had been checkered without acquiring some slight knowledge of medicine. He knew a little of everything and several times he had been obliged to attend to wounds produced either by a sword-bayonet or shot. Assisted by Cyrus Harding he proceeded to render the aid Herbert required. The reporter was immediately struck by the complete stupor in which Herbert lay a stupor owing either to the hemorrhage or to the shock the ball having struck a bone with sufficient force to produce a violent concussion. Herbert was deadly pale and his pulse so feeble that Spilett .