Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 113
... Colonel Emilio Falcon , the private secretary of Losada , the new president , was despatched from the capital upon this important mission . The position of private secretary to a tropical president is a responsible one . He must be a ...
... Colonel Emilio Falcon , the private secretary of Losada , the new president , was despatched from the capital upon this important mission . The position of private secretary to a tropical president is a responsible one . He must be a ...
Pagina 114
... Colonel Falcon established his headquarters in one of the rooms of the Casa Morena . Here for a week he held informal sittings much as if he were a kind of unified grand jury — and summoned before him all those whose testimony might ...
... Colonel Falcon established his headquarters in one of the rooms of the Casa Morena . Here for a week he held informal sittings much as if he were a kind of unified grand jury — and summoned before him all those whose testimony might ...
Pagina 116
... Colonel Falcon soon came to the reasonable con- clusion that if anyone in Coralio could furnish a clue to the vanished money , Frank Goodwin must be the man . But the wise secretary pursued a different course in seeking information from ...
... Colonel Falcon soon came to the reasonable con- clusion that if anyone in Coralio could furnish a clue to the vanished money , Frank Goodwin must be the man . But the wise secretary pursued a different course in seeking information from ...
Pagina 117
... Colonel Falcon in a big , cool , shadowed room with a floor of inlaid and polished woods that any millionaire in the States would have envied , excusing himself for a few minutes . He crossed a patio , shaded with deftly arranged awn ...
... Colonel Falcon in a big , cool , shadowed room with a floor of inlaid and polished woods that any millionaire in the States would have envied , excusing himself for a few minutes . He crossed a patio , shaded with deftly arranged awn ...
Pagina 118
... Colonel Falcon , from San Mateo . He is come on government business . I do not think you will care to see him , so I prescribe for you one of those convenient and indisputable feminine headaches . " " He has come to inquire about the ...
... Colonel Falcon , from San Mateo . He is come on government business . I do not think you will care to see him , so I prescribe for you one of those convenient and indisputable feminine headaches . " " He has come to inquire about the ...
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood bananas beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul Coralio crew Dalesburg dark Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic Rosine sail sand says seemed Señor Goodwin señorita shoes shore sloop smile smoke Spanish Spanish Main steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thousand tintype took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla
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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...