THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 33 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 33 We waited all day for Wolf Larsen to come ashore. It was an intolerable period of anxiety. Each moment one or the other of us cast expectant glances toward the Ghost. But he did not come. He did not even appear on deck. Perhaps it is his headache I said. I left him lying on the poop. He may lie there all night. I think I ll go and see. Maud looked entreaty at me. It is all right I assured her. I shall take the revolvers. You know I collected every weapon on board. But there are his arms his hands his terrible terrible hands she objected. And then she cried Oh Humphrey I am afraid of him Don t go - please don t go She rested her hand appealingly on mine and sent my pulse fluttering. My heart was surely in my eyes for a moment. The dear and lovely woman And she was so much the woman clinging and appealing sunshine and dew to my manhood rooting it deeper and sending through it the sap of a new strength. I was for putting my arm around her as when in the midst of the seal herd but I considered and refrained. I shall not take any risks I said. I ll merely peep over the bow and see. She pressed my hand earnestly and let me go. But the space on deck where I had left him lying was vacant. He had evidently gone below. That night we stood alternate watches one of us sleeping at a time for there was no telling what Wolf Larsen might do. He was certainly capable of anything. The next day we waited and the next and still he made no sign. These headaches of his these attacks Maud said on the afternoon of the fourth day Perhaps he is ill very ill. He may be dead. Or dying was her afterthought when she had waited some time for me to speak. Better so I answered. But think Humphrey a fellow-creature in his last lonely hour. Perhaps I suggested. Yes even perhaps she acknowledged. But we do not know. It would be terrible if he were. I could never forgive myself. We must do something. Perhaps I suggested again. I waited smiling inwardly at the woman
