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THE SEA WOLF JACK LONDON CHAPTER 24 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 24 Among the most vivid memories of my life are those of the events on the Ghost which occurred during the forty hours succeeding the discovery of my love for Maud Brewster. I who had lived my life in quiet places only to enter at the age of thirty-five upon a course of the most irrational adventure I could have imagined never had more incident and excitement crammed into any forty hours of my experience. Nor can I quite close my ears to a small voice of pride which tells me I did not do so badly all things considered. To begin with at the midday dinner Wolf Larsen informed the hunters that they were to eat thenceforth in the steerage. It was an unprecedented thing on sealing-schooners where it is the custom for the hunters to rank unofficially as officers. He gave no reason but his motive was obvious enough. Horner and Smoke had been displaying a gallantry toward Maud Brewster ludicrous in itself and inoffensive to her but to him evidently distasteful. The announcement was received with black silence though the other four hunters glanced significantly at the two who had been the cause of their banishment. Jock Horner quiet as was his way gave no sign but the blood surged darkly across Smoke s forehead and he half opened his mouth to speak. Wolf Larsen was watching him waiting for him the steely glitter in his eyes but Smoke closed his mouth again without having said anything. Anything to say the other demanded aggressively. It was a challenge but Smoke refused to accept it. About what he asked so innocently that Wolf Larsen was disconcerted while the others smiled. Oh nothing Wolf Larsen said lamely. I just thought you might want to register a kick. About what asked the imperturbable Smoke. Smoke s mates were now smiling broadly. His captain could have killed him and I doubt not that blood would have flowed had not Maud Brewster been present. For that matter it was her presence which enabled. Smoke to act as he did. He was too .