JULES VERNE -THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 36 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | JULES VERNE THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 36 Pencroft Herbert and Gideon Spilett remained silent in the midst of the darkness. Pencroft shouted loudly. No reply was made. The sailor then struck a light and set fire to a twig. This lighted for a minute a small room which appeared perfectly empty. At the back was a rude fireplace with a few cold cinders supporting an armful of dry wood. Pencroft threw the blazing twig on it the wood crackled and gave forth a bright light. The sailor and his two companions then perceived a disordered bed of which the damp and yellow coverlets proved that it had not been used for a long time. In the corner of the fireplace were two kettles covered with rust and an overthrown pot. A cupboard with a few moldy sailor s clothes on the table a tin plate and a Bible eaten away by damp in a corner a few tools a spade pickaxe two fowling-pieces one of which was broken on a plank forming a shelf stood a barrel of powder still untouched a barrel of shot and several boxes of caps all thickly covered with dust accumulated perhaps by many long years. There is no one here said the reporter. No one replied Pencroft. It is a long time since this room has been inhabited observed Herbert. Yes a very long time answered the reporter. Mr. Spilett then said Pencroft instead of returning on board I think that it would be well to pass the night in this hut. You are right Pencroft answered Gideon Spilett and if its owner returns well perhaps he will not be sorry to find the place taken possession of. He will not return said the sailor shaking his head. You think that he has quitted the island asked the reporter. If he had quitted the island he would have taken away his weapons and his tools replied Pencroft. You know the value which castaways set on such articles as these the last remains of a wreck. No no repeated the sailor in a tone of conviction no he has not left the island If he had escaped in a boat made by himself he would still less have left these .
