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THE ADMIRAL 130 IX . THE FLAG PARAMOUNT X. THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM XI . THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE XII . SHOES · · • · 144 · • . 161 · 189 • 204 XIII . SHIPS · · 219 XV . DICKY • XIV . MASTERS OF ARTS XVI . ROUGE ET NOIR XVII .
THE ADMIRAL 130 IX . THE FLAG PARAMOUNT X. THE SHAMROCK AND THE PALM XI . THE REMNANTS OF THE CODE XII . SHOES · · • · 144 · • . 161 · 189 • 204 XIII . SHIPS · · 219 XV . DICKY • XIV . MASTERS OF ARTS XVI . ROUGE ET NOIR XVII .
Pagina 129
I thought I could do it , but I couldn't , " he mut- tered to himself after a time . " A gentleman can't blackmail the man that he drinks with . ” VIII THE ADMIRAL SPILLED milk draws few tears from an Money Maze 129.
I thought I could do it , but I couldn't , " he mut- tered to himself after a time . " A gentleman can't blackmail the man that he drinks with . ” VIII THE ADMIRAL SPILLED milk draws few tears from an Money Maze 129.
Pagina 130
VIII THE ADMIRAL SPILLED milk draws few tears from an Anchurian administration . Many are its lacteal sources ; and the clocks ' hands point forever to milking time . Even the rich cream skimmed from the treasury by the bewitched ...
VIII THE ADMIRAL SPILLED milk draws few tears from an Anchurian administration . Many are its lacteal sources ; and the clocks ' hands point forever to milking time . Even the rich cream skimmed from the treasury by the bewitched ...
Pagina 131
A dozen quarts of champagne in conjunction with an informal sitting of the president and his cabinet led to the establishment of the navy and the appoint- ment of Felipe Carrera as its admiral . Next to the champagne the credit of the ...
A dozen quarts of champagne in conjunction with an informal sitting of the president and his cabinet led to the establishment of the navy and the appoint- ment of Felipe Carrera as its admiral . Next to the champagne the credit of the ...
Pagina 133
... encrusted with chro- matic seals and jaunty with fluttering ribbons , bear- ing the florid signatures of state . This commission conferred upon el Seņor Don Felipe Carrera the title of Flag Admiral of the Republic of Anchuria .
... encrusted with chro- matic seals and jaunty with fluttering ribbons , bear- ing the florid signatures of state . This commission conferred upon el Seņor Don Felipe Carrera the title of Flag Admiral of the Republic of Anchuria .
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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.