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Pagina 4
They say , in Coralio , that she found a prompt and prosperous tide in the form of
Frank Goodwin , an American resident of the town , an investor who had grown
wealthy by dealing in the products of the country — a banana king , a rubber ...
They say , in Coralio , that she found a prompt and prosperous tide in the form of
Frank Goodwin , an American resident of the town , an investor who had grown
wealthy by dealing in the products of the country — a banana king , a rubber ...
Pagina 5
Of the American , Don Frank Goodwin , and of his wife the natives have nothing
but good to say . Don Frank has lived among them for years , and has compelled
their respect . His lady is easily queen of what social life the sober coast affords .
Of the American , Don Frank Goodwin , and of his wife the natives have nothing
but good to say . Don Frank has lived among them for years , and has compelled
their respect . His lady is easily queen of what social life the sober coast affords .
Pagina 7
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 dreamy inaction ? The
underlying threads reach far , stretching across the sea . Following them out it will
be ...
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 dreamy inaction ? The
underlying threads reach far , stretching across the sea . Following them out it will
be ...
Pagina 11
A native boy dashed down a grass - grown street , shrieking : “ Busca el Señor
Goodwin . Ha venido un telégrafo por el ! ” The word passed quickly . Telegrams
do not often come to anyone in Coralio . The cry for Señor Goodwin was taken up
...
A native boy dashed down a grass - grown street , shrieking : “ Busca el Señor
Goodwin . Ha venido un telégrafo por el ! ” The word passed quickly . Telegrams
do not often come to anyone in Coralio . The cry for Señor Goodwin was taken up
...
Pagina 12
Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown
gathered at street corners and plaintively carolled : “ Un telégrafo por Señor
Goodwin ! ” The comandante , Don Senor el Coronel Encarnación Rios , who
was loyal ...
Knots of women with complexions varying from palest olive to deepest brown
gathered at street corners and plaintively carolled : “ Un telégrafo por Señor
Goodwin ! ” The comandante , Don Senor el Coronel Encarnación Rios , who
was loyal ...
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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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