MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 5 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 . | MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 5 Breakfast I quickley followed suit and descending into the bar-room accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly. I cherished no malice towards him though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow. However a good laugh is a mighty good thing and rather too scarce a good thing the more s the pity. So if any one man in his own proper person afford stuff for a good joke to anybody let him not be backward but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and to be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for. The bar-room was now full of the boarders who had been dropping in the night previous and whom I had not as yet had a good look at. They were nearly all whalemen chief mates and second mates and third mates and sea carpenters and sea coopers and sea blacksmiths and harpooneers and ship keepers a brown and brawny company with bosky beards an unshorn shaggy set all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns. You could pretty plainly tell how long each one had been ashore. This young fellow s healthy cheek is like a sun-toasted pear in hue and would seem to smell almost as musky he cannot have been three days landed from his Indian voyage. That man next him looks a few shades lighter you might say a touch of satin wood is in him. In the complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn but slightly bleached withal he doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore. But who could show a cheek like Queequeg which barred with various tints seemed like the Andes western slope to show forth in one array contrasting climates zone by zone. Grub ho now cried the landlord flinging open a door and in we went to breakfast. They say that men who have seen the world thereby become quite at ease in manner quite self-possessed in company. Not always though Ledyard the great New England traveller and Mungo Park the Scotch one of .
