The Complete Works of O. Henry, Volume 2Doubleday, Page, 1911 - 1396 pagine The complete stories of O. Henry with poems, and critical land biographical comment. |
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Pagina 20
... miles away and you won't even twinkle once . But you kept where I could see you most of the time up there when there wasn't anything else but darkness to look at , didn't you ? ... Millions of miles . . . . Good - bye , Billy Jackson ...
... miles away and you won't even twinkle once . But you kept where I could see you most of the time up there when there wasn't anything else but darkness to look at , didn't you ? ... Millions of miles . . . . Good - bye , Billy Jackson ...
Pagina 70
... miles to stand in this door to - night , and it's worth it if my old partner turns up . " The waiting man pulled out a handsome watch , the lids of it set with small diamonds . " Three minutes to ten , " he announced . " It was exactly ...
... miles to stand in this door to - night , and it's worth it if my old partner turns up . " The waiting man pulled out a handsome watch , the lids of it set with small diamonds . " Three minutes to ten , " he announced . " It was exactly ...
Pagina 71
... miles to fill an appointment , uncertain almost to absurdity , with the friend of his youth , smoked his cigar and waited . About twenty minutes he waited , and then a tall man in a long overcoat , with collar turned up to his ears ...
... miles to fill an appointment , uncertain almost to absurdity , with the friend of his youth , smoked his cigar and waited . About twenty minutes he waited , and then a tall man in a long overcoat , with collar turned up to his ears ...
Pagina 88
... miles they had ridden in silence save for the soft drum of the ponies ' hoofs on the matted mesquite grass , and the rattle of the chaparral against their wooden stirrups . But in Texas discourse is seldom continuous . You may fill in a ...
... miles they had ridden in silence save for the soft drum of the ponies ' hoofs on the matted mesquite grass , and the rattle of the chaparral against their wooden stirrups . But in Texas discourse is seldom continuous . You may fill in a ...
Pagina 89
... miles that night instead of grass . You remember Scurry — that educated horse - wrangler we had - the college fellow ... mile that night . She wasn't at the coma mott . I went to the house ; and old McAllister met me at the door . ' Did ...
... miles that night instead of grass . You remember Scurry — that educated horse - wrangler we had - the college fellow ... mile that night . She wasn't at the coma mott . I went to the house ; and old McAllister met me at the door . ' Did ...
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Pagina 10 - Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table. "Don't make any mistake, Dell," he said, "about me. I don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less. But if you'll unwrap that package you may see why you had me going a while at first.
Pagina 7 - One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas. There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it.
Pagina 9 - Delia, and there was an expression in them that she could not read, and it terrified her. It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for. He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face. Delia wriggled off the table and went for him. "Jim, darling," she cried, "don't look at me that way.
Pagina 9 - ... saw it she knew that it must be Jim's. It was like him. Quietness and value — the description applied to both. Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents. With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company. Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain. When Delia reached home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and reason.
Pagina 9 - You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor. "Cut it off and sold it,
Pagina 81 - A pretty slip of a colleen she was to be killin' herself wid the gas — a swate little face she had, Mrs. Purdy, ma'am." "She'd a-been called handsome, as you say," said Mrs. Purdy, assenting but critical, "but for that mole she had a-growin
Pagina 8 - Had the Queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty's jewels and gifts. Had King Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim...
Pagina 80 - Now, did ye, Mrs. Purdy, ma'am?" said Mrs. McCool, with intense admiration. "You do be a wonder for rentin
Pagina 81 - As you say, we has our living to be making," remarked Mrs. Purdy. "Yis, ma'am; 'tis true. 'Tis just one wake ago this day I helped ye lay out the third floor, back. A pretty slip of a colleen she was to be killin' herself wid the gas — a swate little face she had, Mrs. Purdy, ma'am.
Pagina 79 - Surely it must have been a sound. But, was it not the sound that had touched, that had caressed him? "She has been in this room," he cried, and he sprang to wrest from it a token, for he knew he would recognize the smallest thing that had belonged to her or that she had touched. This enveloping scent of mignonette, the odor that she had loved and made her own — whence came it?