Complete Writings of O. Henry [i.e. W.S. Porter]Doubleday, Page, 1917 |
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Pagina 59
... aguardiente , " said Madama , with pride , " is the best . It grows , in beautiful bottles , in the dark places among the banana - trees . Si , Señor . Only at midnight can they be picked by sailor - men who bring them , before daylight ...
... aguardiente , " said Madama , with pride , " is the best . It grows , in beautiful bottles , in the dark places among the banana - trees . Si , Señor . Only at midnight can they be picked by sailor - men who bring them , before daylight ...
Pagina 99
... aguardiente , which is the best . To their rooms they ascended - Numero Nueve and Numero Diez . Later came Señor Goodwin , who ascended to speak with them . Then I heard a great noise like that of a canon , and they said that the pobre ...
... aguardiente , which is the best . To their rooms they ascended - Numero Nueve and Numero Diez . Later came Señor Goodwin , who ascended to speak with them . Then I heard a great noise like that of a canon , and they said that the pobre ...
Pagina 109
... aguardiente por acá . " " Now , what do you want to see me about ? " asked Goodwin , when the drinks were before them . " Confound it , old man , " drawled Blythe , " why do you spoil a golden moment like this with business ? I wanted ...
... aguardiente por acá . " " Now , what do you want to see me about ? " asked Goodwin , when the drinks were before them . " Confound it , old man , " drawled Blythe , " why do you spoil a golden moment like this with business ? I wanted ...
Pagina 166
... aguardiente . In two of the pulperias his courageous petition for drink was met with a refusal so polite that it stung worse than abuse . The third establish- ment had acquired something of American methods ; and here he was seized ...
... aguardiente . In two of the pulperias his courageous petition for drink was met with a refusal so polite that it stung worse than abuse . The third establish- ment had acquired something of American methods ; and here he was seized ...
Pagina 171
... aguardiente . I'm not putting on the screws hard . It ought to be worth a thousand to you for me to have slept on that cot through the whole business without waking up and seeing anything . " Goodwin opened two more letters , and made ...
... aguardiente . I'm not putting on the screws hard . It ought to be worth a thousand to you for me to have slept on that cot through the whole business without waking up and seeing anything . " Goodwin opened two more letters , and made ...
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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,...