JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 1 THE PROFESSOR AND HIS FAMILY Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nang cao. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 1 THE PROFESSOR AND HIS FAMILY On the 24th of May 1863 my uncle Professor Liedenbrock rushed into his little house No. 19 Königstrasse one of the oldest streetsin the oldest portion of the city of Hamburg. Martha must have concluded that she was very much behindhand for thedinner had only just been put into the oven. Well now said I to myself if that most impatient of men is hungry what a disturbance he will make M. Liedenbrock so soon cried poor Martha in great alarm halfopening the dining-room door. Yes Martha but very likely the dinner is not half cooked for itis not two yet. Saint Michael s clock has only just struck half-pastone. Then why has the master come home so soon Perhaps he will tell us that himself. Here he is Monsieur Axel I will run and hide myself while youargue with him. And Martha retreated in safety into her own dominions. I was left alone. But how was it possible for a man of my undecidedturn of mind to argue successfully with so irascible a person as theProfessor With this persuasion I was hurrying away to my own littleretreat upstairs when the street door creaked upon its hinges heavyfeet made the whole flight of stairs to shake and the master of thehouse passing rapidly through the dining-room threw himself inhaste into his own sanctum. But on his rapid way he had found time to fling his hazel stick intoa corner his rough broadbrim upon the table and these few emphaticwords at his nephew Axel follow me I had scarcely had time to move when the Professor was again shoutingafter me What not come yet And I rushed into my redoubtable master s study. Otto Liedenbrock had no mischief in him I willingly allow that butunless he very considerably changes as he grows older at the end hewill be a most original character. He was professor at the Johannx um and was delivering a series oflectures on mineralogy in the course of every one of which he brokeinto a passion once or twice at least. Not at all
