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MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 114 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 114 The Gilder Penetrating further and further into the heart of the Japanese cruising ground the Pequod was soon all astir in the fishery. Often in mild pleasant weather for twelve fifteen eighteen and twenty hours on the stretch they were engaged in the boats steadily pulling or sailing or paddling after the whales or for an interlude of sixty or seventy minutes calmly awaiting their uprising though with but small success for their pains. At such times under an abated sun afloat all day upon smooth slow heaving swells seated in his boat light as a birch canoe and so sociably mixing with the soft waves themselves that like hearth-stone cats they purr against the gunwale these are the times of dreamy quietude when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean s skin one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang. These are the times when in his whale-boat the rover softly feels a certain filial confident land-like feeling towards the sea that he regards it as so much flowery earth and the distant ship revealing only the tops of her masts seems struggling forward not through high rolling waves but through the tall grass of a rolling prairie as when the western emigrants horses only show their erected ears while their hidden bodies widely wade through the amazing verdure. The long-drawn virgin vales the mild blue hill-sides as over these there steals the hush the hum you almost swear that play-wearied children lie sleeping in these solitudes in some glad May-time when the flowers of the woods are plucked. And all this mixes with your most mystic mood so that fact and fancy half-way meeting interpenetrate and form one seamless whole. Nor did such soothing scenes however temporary fail of at least as temporary an effect on Ahab. But if these secret golden keys did seem to open in him his own secret golden treasuries yet did his breath .