JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 7 A WOMAN'S COURAGE 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 7 A WOMAN S COURAGE Thus ended this memorable seance. That conversation threw me into afever. I came out of my uncle s study as if I had been stunned andas if there was not air enough in all the streets of Hamburg to putme right again. I therefore made for the banks of the Elbe where thesteamer lands her passengers which forms the communication betweenthe city and the Hamburg railway. Was I convinced of the truth of what I had heard Had I not bentunder the iron rule of the Professor Liedenbrock Was I to believehim in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the centre of thismassive globe Had I been listening to the mad speculations of alunatic or to the scientific conclusions of a lofty genius Wheredid truth stop Where did error begin I was all adrift amongst a thousand contradictory hypotheses but Icould not lay hold of one. Yet I remembered that I had been convinced although now myenthusiasm was beginning to cool down but I felt a desire to startat once and not to lose time and courage by calm reflection. I hadat that moment quite courage enough to strap my knapsack to myshoulders and start. But I must confess that in another hour this unnatural excitementabated my nerves became unstrung and from the depths of the abyssesof this earth I ascended to its surface again. It is quite absurd I cried there is no sense about it. Nosensible young man should for a moment entertain such a proposal. Thewhole thing is nonexistent. I have had a bad night I have beendreaming of horrors. But I had followed the banks of the Elbe and passed the town. Afterpassing the port too I had reached the Altona road. I was led by apresentiment soon to be realised for shortly I espied my littleGrauben bravely returning with her light step to Hamburg. Grauben I cried from afar off. The young girl stopped rather frightened perhaps to hear her namecalled after her on the high road. Ten yards more and I had joinedher. Axel she cried .
