"Philip Wylie - Gladiator" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wylie Philip)

тАв Chapter VII
тАв Chapter VIII
тАв Chapter IX
тАв Chapter X
тАв Chapter XI
тАв Chapter XII
тАв Chapter XIII
тАв Chapter XIV
тАв Chapter XV
тАв Chapter XVI
тАв Chapter XVII
тАв Chapter XVIII
тАв Chapter XIX
тАв Chapter XX
тАв Chapter XXI
тАв Chapter XXII
тАв Chapter XXIII




Gladiator 1
 Gladiator




тАЬI see thee in the hemisphere advanced
and made a constellation there!тАЭ

From Ben Jonson's тАЬMr. William ShakespeareтАЭ

Chapter I

ONCE upon a time in Colorado lived a man named Abednego Danner and his wife, Matilda. Abednego
Danner was a professor of biology in a small college in the town of Indian Creek. He was a spindling wisp of
a man, with a nature drawn well into itself by the assaults of the world and particularly of the grim Mrs.
Danner, who understood nothing and undertook all. Nevertheless these two lived modestly in a frame house
on the hem of Indian Creek and they appeared to be a settled and peaceful couple.

The chief obstacle to Mrs. Banner's placid dominion of her hearth was Professor Banner's laboratory, which
occupied a room on the first floor of the house. It was the one impregnable redoubt in her domestic
stronghold. Neither threat nor entreaty would drive him and what she termed his тАЬstinking, unchristian,
unhealthy dingusesтАЭ from that room.

It never occurred to Professor Danner that he was a great man or a genius. His alarm at such a notion would
have been pathetic. He was so fascinated by the trend of his thoughts and experiments, in fact, that he scarcely
realized by what degrees he had outstripped a world that wore picture hats, hobble skirts, and straps beneath
its trouser legs. However, as the century turned and the fashions changed, he was carried further from them,
which was just as well.