Complete Writings of O. Henry [i.e. W.S. Porter]Doubleday, Page, 1917 |
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Pagina 222
... Maloney dropped down from the clouds upon the town , and amused it . Nobody knew where Dicky Maloney hailed from or how he reached Coralio . He appeared there one day ; and that was all . He afterward said that he came on the fruit ...
... Maloney dropped down from the clouds upon the town , and amused it . Nobody knew where Dicky Maloney hailed from or how he reached Coralio . He appeared there one day ; and that was all . He afterward said that he came on the fruit ...
Pagina 225
... Maloney would , sooner or later , ex- plore this field was a thing to be foreseen . There were few doors in Coralio into which his red head had not been poked . In an incredibly short space of time after his first sight of her he was ...
... Maloney would , sooner or later , ex- plore this field was a thing to be foreseen . There were few doors in Coralio into which his red head had not been poked . In an incredibly short space of time after his first sight of her he was ...
Pagina 227
... Maloney , " or " Señor Dickee Maloney , " to the con- siderable pride of Pasa . That so many people should desire to write to him only confirmed her own sus- picion that the light from his red head shone around the world . As to their ...
... Maloney , " or " Señor Dickee Maloney , " to the con- siderable pride of Pasa . That so many people should desire to write to him only confirmed her own sus- picion that the light from his red head shone around the world . As to their ...
Pagina 231
... Maloney , " he began , captiously , ' you fellows seem to think you can cut up any kind of row , and expect me to pull you out of it . I'm neither the War Department nor a gold mine . This country has its laws , you know , and there's ...
... Maloney , " he began , captiously , ' you fellows seem to think you can cut up any kind of row , and expect me to pull you out of it . I'm neither the War Department nor a gold mine . This country has its laws , you know , and there's ...
Pagina 232
... Maloney . Or if there's any to- bacco , or newspa- 99 " There's nothing , " interrupted Dicky , shortly , " but this . You go tell the captain of the Catarina that Dicky Maloney wants to see him as soon as he can conveniently come ...
... Maloney . Or if there's any to- bacco , or newspa- 99 " There's nothing , " interrupted Dicky , shortly , " but this . You go tell the captain of the Catarina that Dicky Maloney wants to see him as soon as he can conveniently come ...
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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,...