Cabbages & KingsDoubleday, Page & Company, 1904 - 310 pagine |
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Pagina 67
... attempt to leave the house by any door or window . Goodwin himself went to the door through which the guests had entered , opened it and stepped inside . Madama had returned downstairs from her jour- ney above to Caught 67.
... attempt to leave the house by any door or window . Goodwin himself went to the door through which the guests had entered , opened it and stepped inside . Madama had returned downstairs from her jour- ney above to Caught 67.
Pagina 68
... entered . " Ah ! it is the Señor Goodwin . Not often does he honour my poor house by his presence . " " I must come oftener , " said Goodwin , with the Goodwin smile . " I hear that your cognac is the best between Belize to the north ...
... entered . " Ah ! it is the Señor Goodwin . Not often does he honour my poor house by his presence . " " I must come oftener , " said Goodwin , with the Goodwin smile . " I hear that your cognac is the best between Belize to the north ...
Pagina 69
... entered and closed the door behind him . If that was Isabel Guilbert seated by the table in that poorly furnished room , report had failed to do her charms justice . She rested her head upon one hand . Extreme fatigue was signified in ...
... entered and closed the door behind him . If that was Isabel Guilbert seated by the table in that poorly furnished room , report had failed to do her charms justice . She rested her head upon one hand . Extreme fatigue was signified in ...
Pagina 70
... entered , with an expression of sur- prised inquiry , but without alarm . Goodwin took off his hat and seated himself , with his characteristic deliberate ease , upon a corner of the table . He held a lighted cigar between his fin- gers ...
... entered , with an expression of sur- prised inquiry , but without alarm . Goodwin took off his hat and seated himself , with his characteristic deliberate ease , upon a corner of the table . He held a lighted cigar between his fin- gers ...
Pagina 72
... entered this room at a venture . Had I entered the other I would have had it before now . Do you want it in words ? The gentleman in Number 10 has betrayed a great trust . He has robbed his people of a large sum , and it is I who will ...
... entered this room at a venture . Had I entered the other I would have had it before now . Do you want it in words ? The gentleman in Number 10 has betrayed a great trust . He has robbed his people of a large sum , and it is I who will ...
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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 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 Walrus White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla
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Pagina 10 - His Nibs 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 to know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 90 - Gallia in tres partes divisa est'; which is the same as to say, "We will need all of our gall in devising means to tree them parties.
Pagina 55 - 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 7 - 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.