Skorb' Satany

Molodoy pisatel' Dzheffri Tempest, prozyabayushchiy v nishchete i bezvestnosti, prodaet dushu Satane i poluchaet ot Knyazya T'my vse, o chem tol'ko mechtal… tochnee, pochti vse. Teper' svetskoe obshchestvo, ranee im prenebregavshee, lezhit u ego nog. K ego uslugam nesmetnoe sostoyanie, lyubov' prekrasnoy devushki, roskosh' i udovol'stviya. No mnogo li eto znachit, esli utracheno glavnoe, radi chego Dzheffri zhil, — ego talant?..