"Davidson-Sacrifice" - читать интересную книгу автора (Davidson Avram)

Slauson cleared his throat and began to read.

He read for half an hour. He read for an hour. He read for an hour and a half.
No one coughed. No one lit a cigarette. No one did anything connected with
water. Slauson read for one hour and fifty-seven minutes. When he had done, the
silence still went on.

Then Sonya began to scream and when the scream was understood to be "Bravo!"
others joined her. Willie clapped her splayed arthritic paws. Ava kissed him
repeatedly. Arno murmured passionate impossible murmurs in his ears; and
Helmberger, mustache wet with tears, could only mutter, brokenly, ". . . morrow
. . . contract . . . advance . . . greatest . . . escalator clause third hundred
thousand. . . . "

Finally Farmer's dry, critic's voice, slightly husky now, was heard to say, "--
worth any sacrifice: For having written that, an entire life is not too much to
have given!"

Hear, hear! they all cried, Willis thumping her cane on the floor.

Hear, hear!