Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 52
... Madama Timotea Ortiz , occupied the ground floor . On the bottles of brandy , anisada , Scotch " smoke " and in- expensive wines behind the little counter the dust lay thick save where the fingers of infrequent customers had left 52 ...
... Madama Timotea Ortiz , occupied the ground floor . On the bottles of brandy , anisada , Scotch " smoke " and in- expensive wines behind the little counter the dust lay thick save where the fingers of infrequent customers had left 52 ...
Pagina 53
... Madama's sepulchral hospitality . But Madama sat behind her bar content , not desiring to quarrel with Fate . If anyone required meat , drink or lodg- ing at the Hotel de los Estranjeros they had but to come , and be served . Está bueno ...
... Madama's sepulchral hospitality . But Madama sat behind her bar content , not desiring to quarrel with Fate . If anyone required meat , drink or lodg- ing at the Hotel de los Estranjeros they had but to come , and be served . Está bueno ...
Pagina 65
... resistance . The couple halted at the door of the Hotel de los Estranjeros , and the man struck upon the wood with the impatience of one unused to his entry being stayed . Madama was long in response ; but after Caught 65.
... resistance . The couple halted at the door of the Hotel de los Estranjeros , and the man struck upon the wood with the impatience of one unused to his entry being stayed . Madama was long in response ; but after Caught 65.
Pagina 66
O. Henry. stayed . Madama was long in response ; but after a time her light showed , the door was opened , and the guests housed . Goodwin stood in the quiet street , lighting another cigar . In two minutes a faint gleam began to show ...
O. Henry. stayed . Madama was long in response ; but after a time her light showed , the door was opened , and the guests housed . Goodwin stood in the quiet street , lighting another cigar . In two minutes a faint gleam began to show ...
Pagina 67
... should 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.
... should 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.
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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.