Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1912 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 3
... President Miraflores , of that volatile republic , died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars ...
... President Miraflores , of that volatile republic , died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thou- sand dollars ...
Pagina 4
... president ; how he strove to escape from the country with the public funds and also with Doņa Isabel Guilbert , the young American opera singer ; and how , being apprehended by members of the opposing polit- ical party in Coralio , he ...
... president ; how he strove to escape from the country with the public funds and also with Doņa Isabel Guilbert , the young American opera singer ; and how , being apprehended by members of the opposing polit- ical party in Coralio , he ...
Pagina 5
... president's death , thus , in the very moment when Fortune had ceased to smile , wresting from her a gift greater than the prize withdrawn . Of the American , Don Frank Goodwin , and of his wife the natives have nothing but good to say ...
... president's death , thus , in the very moment when Fortune had ceased to smile , wresting from her a gift greater than the prize withdrawn . Of the American , Don Frank Goodwin , and of his wife the natives have nothing but good to say ...
Pagina 6
... President Miraflores is daily scrubbed with soap - bark and sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the grave with fidelity and the dawdling minuteness of inherited sloth . He chops down the weeds and ever - springing grass with his ...
... President Miraflores is daily scrubbed with soap - bark and sand . An old half - breed Indian tends the grave with fidelity and the dawdling minuteness of inherited sloth . He chops down the weeds and ever - springing grass with his ...
Pagina 7
... engage her fancy . To President Miraflores , the brilliant but unstable ruler of Anchuria , she yielded the key to her resolute heart . How , then , do we find her ( as the Coralians would have told you ) the wife of The Proem . 7.
... engage her fancy . To President Miraflores , the brilliant but unstable ruler of Anchuria , she yielded the key to her resolute heart . How , then , do we find her ( as the Coralians would have told you ) the wife of The Proem . 7.
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood banana beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul Coralio crew Dalesburg Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional eyes face Felipe flag Frank Goodwin friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laugh looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number O'Day Olivarra orange Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores Rosine sail sand sausage says seemed Seņor Goodwin seņorita 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 word yacht Zavalla