JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 24 WELL SAID, OLD MOLE! CANST THOU WORK I' THE GROUND SO FAST? 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 24 WELL SAID OLD MOLE CANST THOU WORK I THE GROUND SO FAST By the next day we had forgotten all our sufferings. At first I waswondering that I was no longer thirsty and I was for asking for thereason. The answer came in the murmuring of the stream at my feet. We breakfasted and drank of this excellent chalybeate water. I feltwonderfully stronger and quite decided upon pushing on. Why shouldnot so firmly convinced a man as my uncle furnished with soindustrious a guide as Hans and accompanied by so determined anephew as myself go on to final success Such were the magnificentplans which struggled for mastery within me. If it had been proposedto me to return to the summit of Siuufell I should have indignantlydeclined. Most fortunately all we had to do was to descend. Let us start I cried awakening by my shouts the echoes of thevaulted hollows of the earth. On Thursday at 8 . we started afresh. The granite tunnel windingfrom side to side earned us past unexpected turns and seemed almost to form a labyrinth but on the whole its directionseemed to be south-easterly. My uncle never ceased to consult hiscompass to keep account of the ground gone over. The gallery dipped down a very little way from the horizontal scarcely more than two inches in a fathom and the stream ran gentlymurmuring at our feet. I compared it to a friendly genius guiding usunderground and caressed with my hand the soft naiad whosecomforting voice accompanied our steps. With my reviving spiritsthese mythological notions seemed to come unbidden. As for my uncle he was beginning to storm against the horizontalroad. He loved nothing better than a vertical path but this wayseemed indefinitely prolonged and instead of sliding along thehypothenuse as we were now doing he would willingly have droppeddown the terrestrial radius. But there was no help for it and aslong as we were approaching the centre at all we felt that we mustnot complain. From time to
