JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 11 A GUIDE FOUND TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH 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 11 A GUIDE FOUND TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH In the evening I took a short walk on the beach and returned at nightto my plank-bed where I slept soundly all night. When I awoke I heard my uncle talking at a great rate in the nextroom. I immediately dressed and joined him. He was conversing in the Danish language with a tall man of robustbuild. This fine fellow must have been possessed of great eyes set in a large and ingenuous face seemed to me veryintelligent they were of a dreamy sea-blue. Long hair which wouldhave been called red even in England fell in long meshes upon hisbroad shoulders. The movements of this native were lithe and supple but he made little use of his arms in speaking like a man who knewnothing or cared nothing about the language of gestures. His wholeappearance bespoke perfect calmness and selfpossession notindolence but tranquillity. It was felt at once that he would bebeholden to nobody that he worked for his own convenience and thatnothing in this world could astonish or disturb his philosophiccalmness. I caught the shades of this Icelander s character by the way in whichhe listened to the impassioned flow of words which fell from theProfessor. He stood with arms crossed perfectly unmoved by myuncle s incessant gesticulations. A negative was expressed by a slowmovement of the head from left to right an affirmative by a slightbend so slight that his long hair scarcely moved. He carried economyof motion even to parsimony. Certainly I should never have dreamt in looking at this man that hewas a hunter he did not look likely to frighten his game nor did heseem as if he would even get near it. But the mystery was explainedwhen M. Fridrikssen informed me that this tranquil personage was onlya hunter of the eider duck whose under plumage constitutes the chiefwealth of the island. This is the celebrated eider down and itrequires no great rapidity of movement to get it. Early in .
