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Pagina 24
But she ceased suddenly , and drew back with a deepening colour ; for her
mother had been a mestizo lady , and the Spanish blood had brought to Paula a
certain shyness that was an adornment to the other half of her demonstrative
nature .
But she ceased suddenly , and drew back with a deepening colour ; for her
mother had been a mestizo lady , and the Spanish blood had brought to Paula a
certain shyness that was an adornment to the other half of her demonstrative
nature .
Pagina 28
Then half - clothed Caribs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs
the Valhalla ' s purser and the little native officials in their cotton undershirts , blue
trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats . At college Geddie had been a
...
Then half - clothed Caribs dashed into the water , and brought in on their backs
the Valhalla ' s purser and the little native officials in their cotton undershirts , blue
trousers with red stripes , and flapping straw hats . At college Geddie had been a
...
Pagina 29
newspapers , tied with a string , that the steamer always brought for him . Geddie
leaped high and caught the roll with a sounding “ thwack . ” The loungers on the
beach — about a third of the population of the town — laughed and applauded ...
newspapers , tied with a string , that the steamer always brought for him . Geddie
leaped high and caught the roll with a sounding “ thwack . ” The loungers on the
beach — about a third of the population of the town — laughed and applauded ...
Pagina 35
Geddie went into his office and sat down to dawdle over his report . If the reading
of the article in the paper had left him unshaken , this silent passing of the Idalia
had done for him still more . It had brought the calm and peace of a situation from
...
Geddie went into his office and sat down to dawdle over his report . If the reading
of the article in the paper had left him unshaken , this silent passing of the Idalia
had done for him still more . It had brought the calm and peace of a situation from
...
Pagina 36
The wind was blowing mildly landward , and the surface of the sea was rippled
by tiny wavelets . A miniature breaker , spreading with a soft “ swish ” upon the
sand brought with it something round and shiny that rolled back again as the
wave ...
The wind was blowing mildly landward , and the surface of the sea was rippled
by tiny wavelets . A miniature breaker , spreading with a soft “ swish ” upon the
sand brought with it something round and shiny that rolled back again as the
wave ...
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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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