MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 10 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 10 A Bosom Friend Returning to the Spouter-Inn from the Chapel I found Queequeg there quite alone he having left the Chapel before the benediction some time. He was sitting on a bench before the fire with his feet on the stove hearth and in one hand was holding close up to his face that little negro idol of his peering hard into its face and with a jack-knife gently whittling away at its nose meanwhile humming to himself in his heathenish way. But being now interrupted he put up the image and pretty soon going to the table took up a large book there and placing it on his lap began counting the pages with deliberate regularity at every fiftieth page- as I fancied- stopping for a moment looking vacantly around him and giving utterance to a long-drawn gurgling whistle of astonishment. He would then begin again at the next fifty seeming to commence at number one each time as though he could not count more than fifty and it was only by such a large number of fifties being found together that his astonishment at the multitude of pages was excited. With much interest I sat watching him. Savage though he was and hideously marred about the face- at least to my taste- his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tattooings I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart and in his large deep eyes fiery black and bold there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils. And besides all this there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim. He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor. Whether it was too that his head being shaved his forehead was drawn out in freer and brighter relief and looked more expansive than it otherwise would this I will not venture to decide but certain it was his head was phrenologically an excellent one. It may seem ridiculous but it
