JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 23 WATER DISCOVERED 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 23 WATER DISCOVERED For a whole hour I was trying to work out in my delirious brain thereasons which might have influenced this seemingly tranquil absurdest notions ran in utter confusion through my mind. Ithought madness was coming on But at last a noise of footsteps was heard in the dark abyss. Hanswas approaching. A flickering light was beginning to glimmer on thewall of our darksome prison then it came out full at the mouth ofthe gallery. Hans appeared. He drew close to my uncle laid his hand upon his shoulder andgently woke him. My uncle rose up. What is the matter he asked. _Watten _ replied the huntsman. No doubt under the inspiration of intense pain everybody becomesendowed with the gift of divers tongues. I did not know a word ofDanish yet instinctively I understood the word he had uttered. Water water I cried clapping my hands and gesticulating like amadman. Water repeated my uncle. Hvar he asked in Icelandic. _Nedat _ replied Hans. Where Down below I understood it all. I seized the hunter shands and pressed them while he looked on me without moving a muscleof his countenance. The preparations for our departure were not long in making and wewere soon on our way down a passage inclining two feet in seven. Inan hour we had gone a mile and a quarter and descended two thousandfeet. Then I began to hear distinctly quite a new sound of somethingrunning within the thickness of the granite wall a kind of dull dead rumbling like distant thunder. During the first part of ourwalk not meeting with the promised spring I felt my agonyreturning but then my uncle acquainted me with the cause of thestrange noise. Hans was not mistaken he said. What you hear is the rushing of atorrent. A torrent I exclaimed. There can be no doubt a subterranean river is flowing around us. We hurried forward in the greatest excitement. I was no longersensible of my fatigue. This murmuring of waters close at hand wasalready
