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Pagina 13
Fifty yards away , on the seaward side of the street , stood the abode of the
consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin
at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Geddie , the consul , on the back
porch ...
Fifty yards away , on the seaward side of the street , stood the abode of the
consul for the United States . Out from the door of this building tumbled Goodwin
at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Geddie , the consul , on the back
porch ...
Pagina 15
If the wheel successfully revolved , Goodwin stood to win a concession to 30 ,
000 manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the
recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin
' s ...
If the wheel successfully revolved , Goodwin stood to win a concession to 30 ,
000 manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the
recent career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin
' s ...
Pagina 41
Geddie stood still , watching it . The moonlight was so bright that he could see it
bobbing up and down with the little waves . Slowly it receded from the shore ,
flashing and turning as it went . The wind was carrying it out to sea . Soon it
became ...
Geddie stood still , watching it . The moonlight was so bright that he could see it
bobbing up and down with the little waves . Slowly it receded from the shore ,
flashing and turning as it went . The wind was carrying it out to sea . Soon it
became ...
Pagina 52
The Hotel de los Estranjeros was a dreary hostelry , in great disuse both by
strangers and friends . It stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepulchre . A
grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low ,
rock ...
The Hotel de los Estranjeros was a dreary hostelry , in great disuse both by
strangers and friends . It stood at a corner of the Street of the Holy Sepulchre . A
grove of small orange - trees crowded against one side of it , enclosed by a low ,
rock ...
Pagina 65
He stood as an agent for the people of Anchuria , and but for political reasons he
would have demanded then and there the money . It was the design of his party
to secure the imperilled fund , to restore it to the treasury of the country , and to ...
He stood as an agent for the people of Anchuria , and but for political reasons he
would have demanded then and there the money . It was the design of his party
to secure the imperilled fund , to restore it to the treasury of the country , and to ...
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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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