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

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




Gladiator 1
 Gladiator




“I see thee in the hemisphere advanced
and made a constellation there!”

From Ben Jonson's “Mr. William Shakespeare”

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 “stinking, unchristian,
unhealthy dinguses” 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.