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Название книги: And be a Villian
Автор(ы): Rex Stout
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/And-be-a-Villian-219520.html
Chapter One
For the third time I went over the final additions and subtractions on the first page of Form 1040, to make good and sure. Then I swivelled my chair to face Nero Wolfe, who was seated behind his desk to the right of mine reading a book of poems by a guy named Van Doren, Mark Van Doren. So I thought I might as well use a poetry word.
“It's bleak,” I said.
There was no sign that he heard.
“Bleak,” I repeated. “If it means what I think it does. Bleak!”
His eyes didn't lift from the page, but he murmured, “What's bleak?”
“Figures.” I leaned to slide the Form 1040 across the waxed grain of his desk.
“This is March thirteenth. Four thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and sixty-eight cents, in addition to the four quarterly instalments already paid.
Then we have to send in 1040-ES for 1948, and a cheque for ten thousand bucks goes with it.” I clasped my fingers at the back of my head and asked grimly, “Bleak or not?”
He aske
Название книги: And be a Villian
Автор(ы): Rex Stout
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/And-be-a-Villian-219520.html
Chapter One
For the third time I went over the final additions and subtractions on the first page of Form 1040, to make good and sure. Then I swivelled my chair to face Nero Wolfe, who was seated behind his desk to the right of mine reading a book of poems by a guy named Van Doren, Mark Van Doren. So I thought I might as well use a poetry word.
“It's bleak,” I said.
There was no sign that he heard.
“Bleak,” I repeated. “If it means what I think it does. Bleak!”
His eyes didn't lift from the page, but he murmured, “What's bleak?”
“Figures.” I leaned to slide the Form 1040 across the waxed grain of his desk.
“This is March thirteenth. Four thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and sixty-eight cents, in addition to the four quarterly instalments already paid.
Then we have to send in 1040-ES for 1948, and a cheque for ten thousand bucks goes with it.” I clasped my fingers at the back of my head and asked grimly, “Bleak or not?”
He aske
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