THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 27 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 . | THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 27 Day broke grey and chill. The boat was close-hauled on a fresh breeze and the compass indicated that we were just making the course which would bring us to Japan. Though stoutly mittened my fingers were cold and they pained from the grip on the steering- oar. My feet were stinging from the bite of the frost and I hoped fervently that the sun would shine. Before me in the bottom of the boat lay Maud. She at least was warm for under her and over her were thick blankets. The top one I had drawn over her face to shelter it from the night so I could see nothing but the vague shape of her and her light-brown hair escaped from the covering and jewelled with moisture from the air. Long I looked at her dwelling upon that one visible bit of her as only a man would who deemed it the most precious thing in the world. So insistent was my gaze that at last she stirred under the blankets the top fold was thrown back and she smiled out on me her eyes yet heavy with sleep. Good-morning Mr. Van Weyden she said. Have you sighted land yet No I answered but we are approaching it at a rate of six miles an hour. She made a moue of disappointment. But that is equivalent to one hundred and forty-four miles in twenty-four hours I added reassuringly. Her face brightened. And how far have we to go Siberia lies off there I said pointing to the west. But to the south-west some six hundred miles is Japan. If this wind should hold we ll make it in five days. And if it storms The boat could not live She had a way of looking one in the eyes and demanding the truth and thus she looked at me as she asked the question. It would have to storm very hard I temporized. And if it storms very hard I nodded my head. But we may be picked up any moment by a sealingschooner. They are plentifully distributed over this part of the ocean. Why you are chilled through she cried. Look You are shivering. Don t deny it you are. And here I have been lying warm as toast. I don t see .
