JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH JULES VERNE CHAPTER 36 CALM PHILOSOPHIC DISCUSSIONS 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 36 CALM PHILOSOPHIC DISCUSSIONS Here I end what I may call my log happily saved from the wreck andI resume my narrative as before. What happened when the raft was dashed upon the rocks is more than Ican tell. I felt myself hurled into the waves and if I escaped fromdeath and if my body was not torn over the sharp edges of the rocks it was because the powerful arm of Hans came to my rescue. The brave Icelander carried me out of the reach of the waves over aburning sand where I found myself by the side of my uncle. Then he returned to the rocks against which the furious waves werebeating to save what he could. I was unable to speak. I wasshattered with fatigue and excitement I wanted a whole hour torecover even a little. But a deluge of rain was still falling though with that violencewhich generally denotes the near cessation of a storm. A fewoverhanging rocks afforded us some shelter from the storm. Hansprepared some food which I could not touch and each of us exhausted with three sleepless nights fell into a broken and painfulsleep. The next day the weather was splendid. The sky and the sea had sunkinto sudden repose. Every trace of the awful storm had exhilarating voice of the Professor fell upon my ears as I awoke he was ominously cheerful. Well my boy he cried have you slept well Would not any one have thought that we were still in our cheerfullittle house on the Königstrasse and that I was only just coming downto breakfast and that I was to be married to Gräuben that day Alas if the tempest had but sent the raft a little more east weshould have passed under Germany under my beloved town of Hamburg under the very street where dwelt all that I loved most in the only forty leagues would have separated us But they were fortyleagues perpendicular of solid granite wall and in reality we were athousand leagues asunder All these painful reflections rapidly crossed my mind before I .
