THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 48 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 MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 48 The Grotto In spite of the sort of divination which was the remarkable side of the character of Aramis the event subject to the chances of things over which uncertainty presides did not fall out exactly as the Bishop of Vannes had foreseen. Biscarrat better mounted than his companions arrived first at the opening of the grotto and comprehended that the fox and the dogs were all engulfed in it. But struck by that superstitious terror which every dark and subterraneous way naturally impresses upon the mind of man he stopped at the outside of the grotto and waited till his companions should have assembled round him. Well asked the young men coming up out of breath and unable to understand the meaning of his inaction. Well I cannot hear the dogs they and the fox must be all engulfed in this cavern. They were too close up said one of the guards to have lost scent all at once besides we should hear them from one side or another. They must as Biscarrat says be in this grotto. But then said one of the young men why don t they give tongue It is strange said another. Well but said a fourth let us go into this grotto. Is it forbidden that we should enter it No replied Biscarrat only as it looks as dark as a wolf s mouth we might break our necks in it. Witness the dogs said a guard who seem to have broken theirs. What the devil can have become of them asked the young men in chorus and every master called his dog by his name whistled to him in his favorite note without a single reply to either the call or the whistle. It is perhaps an enchanted grotto said Biscarrat. Let us see and jumping from his horse he made a step into the grotto. Stop stop I will accompany you said one of the guards on seeing Biscarrat preparing to disappear in the shade of the cavern s mouth. No replied Biscarrat - there must be something extraordinary in the place don t let us risk ourselves all at once. If in ten minutes you do not hear of me you can
