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Pagina 3
THE PROEM BY THE CARPENTER THEY will tell you in Anchuria , that
President Miraflores , of that volatile republic , died by his own hand in the coast
town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of
an ...
THE PROEM BY THE CARPENTER THEY will tell you in Anchuria , that
President Miraflores , of that volatile republic , died by his own hand in the coast
town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of
an ...
Pagina 7
To President Miraflores , the brilliant but unstable ruler of Anchuria , she yielded
the key to her resolute heart . How , then , do we find her ( as the Coralians would
have told you ) the wife of Frank Goodwin , and happily living a life of dull and ...
To President Miraflores , the brilliant but unstable ruler of Anchuria , she yielded
the key to her resolute heart . How , then , do we find her ( as the Coralians would
have told you ) the wife of Frank Goodwin , and happily living a life of dull and ...
Pagina 14
Goodwin sat on Keogh ' s doorstep , and read his telegram . It was from Bob
Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria ,
eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist
and ...
Goodwin sat on Keogh ' s doorstep , and read his telegram . It was from Bob
Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria ,
eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent revolutionist
and ...
Pagina 15
He was the most successful of the small advance - guard of speculative
Americans that had invaded Anchuria , and he had not reached that enviable
pinnacle without having well exercised the arts of foresight and deduction . He
had taken up ...
He was the most successful of the small advance - guard of speculative
Americans that had invaded Anchuria , and he had not reached that enviable
pinnacle without having well exercised the arts of foresight and deduction . He
had taken up ...
Pagina 16
The telegram , which had remained unintelligible to the Anchurian linguists who
had applied to it in vain their knowledge of Spanish and elemental English ,
conveyed a stimulating piece of news to Goodwin ' s understanding . It informed
him ...
The telegram , which had remained unintelligible to the Anchurian linguists who
had applied to it in vain their knowledge of Spanish and elemental English ,
conveyed a stimulating piece of news to Goodwin ' s understanding . It informed
him ...
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Pagina 14 - Nibj skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs were beginning to crawl to land for their nightly ramble. And it died, at last, upon the highest peaks. Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the flight of a moth, came and went; the Southern Cross peeped with its topmost eye above a row of palms, and the fire-flies heralded with their...
Pagina 11 - CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras.
Pagina 234 - He was the absolute despot and the idol of his people. The wealth of the country poured into his hands. Other presidents had been rapacious without reason. Losada amassed enormous wealth, but his people had their share of the benefits. The joint in his armor was his insatiate passion for monuments and tokens commemorating his glory. In every town he caused to be erected statues of himself bearing legends in praise of his greatness. In the walls of every public edifice, tablets were fixed reciting...
Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Cabbages and Kings Watermark edition |
| Autore | O. Henry |
| Editore | Doubleday, Page, 1904 |
| Lunghezza | 312 pagine |
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