"Лорд Дансени. The Glittering Gate (Блистающие врата) (англ.)" - читать интересную книгу автора

like cheese to Old Nut-cracker.
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They won't let you do it, Bill.
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They don't know what I've got. I'm getting through it
like cheese, Jim.
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Suppose it's a mile thick. Suppose it's a million
miles thick. Suppose it's a hundred million miles
thick.
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Can't be, Jim. Those doors are meant to open outward.
They could n't do that if they were more than four
inches thick at the most, not for an Archbishop.
They'd stick.
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You remember that great safe we broke open once, what
had coal in it.
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This is n't a safe, Jim, this is Heaven. There'll be
the old saints with their halos shining and flickering,
like windows o' wintry nights. {Creak, creak, creak}
And angels thick as swallows along a cottage roof the
day before they go. {Creak, creak, creak} And
orchards full of apples as far as you can see, and the
rivers Tigris and Euphrates, so the Bible says; and a
city of gold, for those that care for cities, all full
of precious stones; but I'm a bit tired of cities and
precious stones. {Creak, creak, creak} I'll go out
into the fields where the orchards are, by the Tigris
and Euphrates. I should n't be surprised if my old
mother was there. She never cared much for the way I
earned my livelihood {creak, creak}, but she was a good
mother to me. I don't know if they want a good mother
in there who would be kind to the angels and sit and
smile at them when they sang and soothe them if they
were cross. If they let all the good ones in she'll be
there all right. {Suddenly} Jim! They won't have
brought me up against her, will they? That's not fair
evidence, Jim.
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It would be just like them to. Very like them.
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If there's a glass of beer to be got in Heaven, or a
dish of tripe and onions, or a pipe of 'bacca she'll
have them for me when I come to her. She used to know
my ways wonderful; and what I liked. And she used to
know when to expect me almost anywhere. I used to
climb in through the window at any hour and she always
knew it was me. {Creak, creak} She'll know it's me at