MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 7 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 7 The Chapel In the same New Bedford there stands a Whaleman s Chapel and few are the moody fishermen shortly bound for the Indian Ocean or Pacific who fail to make a Sunday visit to the spot. I am sure that I did not. Returning from my first morning stroll I again sallied out upon this special errand. The sky had changed from clear sunny cold to driving sleet and mist. Wrapping myself in my shaggy jacket of the cloth called bearskin I fought my way against the stubborn storm. Entering I found a small scattered congregation of sailors and sailors wives and widows. A muffled silence reigned only broken at times by the shrieks of the storm. Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable. The chaplain had not yet arrived and there these silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets with black borders masoned into the wall on either side the pulpit. Three of them ran something like the following but I do not pretend to quote SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN TALBOT Who at the age of eighteen was lost overboard Near the Isle of Desolation off Patagonia November 1st 1836. THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS SISTER. SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT LONG WILLIS ELLERY NATHAN COLEMAN WALTER CANNY SETH MACY AND SAMUEL GLEIG Forming one of the boats crews OF THE SHIP ELIZA Who were towed out of sight by a Whale On the Off-shore Ground in the PACIFIC December 31st 1839. THIS MARBLE Is here placed by their surviving SHIPMATES. SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF The late CAPTAIN EZEKIEL HARDY Who in the bows of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan August 3d 1833. THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS WIDOW. Shaking off the sleet from my ice-glazed hat and jacket I seated myself near the door and turning sideways was surprised to see Queequeg near me. Affected by the solemnity of the scene there was a wondering gaze of .
