Complete Writings of O. Henry [i.e. W.S. Porter]Doubleday, Page, 1917 |
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Pagina 3
... Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the incon- veniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thousand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of ...
... Coralio ; that he had reached thus far in flight from the incon- veniences of an imminent revolution ; and that one hundred thousand dollars , government funds , which he carried with him in an American leather valise as a souvenir of ...
Pagina 4
... Coralio will relate the story of the tragic end of their former president ; how he strove to escape from the country with the public funds and also with Doña Isabel Guilbert , the young American opera singer ; and how , being ...
... Coralio will relate the story of the tragic end of their former president ; how he strove to escape from the country with the public funds and also with Doña Isabel Guilbert , the young American opera singer ; and how , being ...
Pagina 5
... Coralio concerning Señora Goodwin seemed now to be in her favour , whatever they had been in the past . It would seem that the story is ended , instead of begun ; that the close of a tragedy and the climax of a romance have covered the ...
... Coralio concerning Señora Goodwin seemed now to be in her favour , whatever they had been in the past . It would seem that the story is ended , instead of begun ; that the close of a tragedy and the climax of a romance have covered the ...
Pagina 6
... Coralio one learns of the im- petuous career of Isabel Guilbert . New Orleans gave her birth and the mingled French and Spanish creole nature that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a ...
... Coralio one learns of the im- petuous career of Isabel Guilbert . New Orleans gave her birth and the mingled French and Spanish creole nature that tinctured her life with such turbulence and warmth . She had little education , but a ...
Pagina 10
... Coralio . The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious voices . The main street running parallel to the beach became pop- ulated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of the despatch . Knots of women with ...
... Coralio . The cry for Señor Good- win was taken up by a dozen officious voices . The main street running parallel to the beach became pop- ulated with those who desired to expedite the delivery of the despatch . Knots of women with ...
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Pagina 51 - 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 209 - Hie old boy doesn't draw badly at all. But, ye goddesses of Art! listen to the monstrosity he expects me to paint. He wants himself in the centre of the canvas, of course. He is to be painted as Jupiter sitting on Olympus, with the clouds at his feet. At one side of him stands George Washington, in full regimentals, with his hand on the president's shoulder. An angel with outstretched wings hovers overhead, and is placing a laurel wreath on the president's head, crowning him — Queen of the May,...