Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 113
... Losada , the new president , was despatched from the capital upon this important mission . The position of private secretary to a tropical president is a responsible one . He must be a dip- plomat , a spy , a ruler of men , a body ...
... Losada , the new president , was despatched from the capital upon this important mission . The position of private secretary to a tropical president is a responsible one . He must be a dip- plomat , a spy , a ruler of men , a body ...
Pagina 124
... Losada's agent maintained an attitude of waiting , as if he expected a continuance . " And now , " went on the American , looking stead- ily into the eyes of the other man , and giving each word a deliberate emphasis , " you will oblige ...
... Losada's agent maintained an attitude of waiting , as if he expected a continuance . " And now , " went on the American , looking stead- ily into the eyes of the other man , and giving each word a deliberate emphasis , " you will oblige ...
Pagina 128
... Losada would make it a hot country , " he re- marked at length , " for the man who swiped that gripsack of treasury boodle , don't you think ? " “ Undoubtedly , he would , " agreed Goodwin calmly , as he rose leisurely to his feet . " I ...
... Losada would make it a hot country , " he re- marked at length , " for the man who swiped that gripsack of treasury boodle , don't you think ? " “ Undoubtedly , he would , " agreed Goodwin calmly , as he rose leisurely to his feet . " I ...
Pagina 130
... Losada , the new president . The ousted office - holders and military favourites organized a new " Liberal " party , and began to lay their plans for a re - succession . Thus the game of Anchurian politics began , like a Chinese comedy ...
... Losada , the new president . The ousted office - holders and military favourites organized a new " Liberal " party , and began to lay their plans for a re - succession . Thus the game of Anchurian politics began , like a Chinese comedy ...
Pagina 133
... Losada himself . The champagne was bubbling trickily in the veins of the mercurial statesmen . It was not the custom of the grave governors of Anchuria to enliven their sessions with a beverage so apt to cast a veil of dis- paragement ...
... Losada himself . The champagne was bubbling trickily in the veins of the mercurial statesmen . It was not the custom of the grave governors of Anchuria to enliven their sessions with a beverage so apt to cast a veil of dis- paragement ...
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Pagina 14 - 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 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.