"Gene Wolfe - Endangered Species" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wolfe Gene)

"Bullshoot."

Lissy giggled. "You just said bullshoot. Now that's charac-
ter!"

He stood up. "Come on, let's go. It's only five hundred
miles to Reno. We can get married there in the morning."

"You're serious, aren't you?"

"If you are."

"Sit down."

"You were testing me," he said. "That's not fair, now is it?"

"You've been so worried all day. I wanted to see if it was
about me-if you thought you'd made a terrible mistake."

"We've made a mistake," he said. "I was trying to fix it just
now."

"You think your dad is going to make it rough for you-"

"Us."

"- for us because it might hurt him in the next election."

He shook his head. "Not that. All right, maybe partly that.
But he means it too. You don't understand him."

"I've got a father myself."

"Not like mine. Ryan was almost grown up before he left
Ireland. Taught by nuns and all that. Besides, I've got six
older brothers and two sisters. You're the oldest kid. Ryan's
probably at least fifteen years older than your folks."

"Is that really his name? Ryan Neal?"

"His full name is Timothy Ryan Neal, the same as mine.
I'm Timothy, Junior. He used Ryan when he went into
politics because there was another Tim Neal around then,
and we've always called me Tim to get away from the
Junior."

"I'm going to call him Tim again, like the nuns must have
when he was young. Big Tim. You're Little Tim."