Complete Writings of O. Henry [i.e. W.S. Porter]Doubleday, Page, 1917 |
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Pagina 13
... friend in Coralio . This could not have been accomplished in either Spanish or English , for the eye politic in An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist ...
... friend in Coralio . This could not have been accomplished in either Spanish or English , for the eye politic in An- churia was an active one . The Ins and the Outs were perpetually on their guard . But Englehart was a diplomatist ...
Pagina 23
... friend . He had just written : " Most unaccountable is the supineness of the large exporters in the United States in permitting the French and German houses to prac- tically control the trade interests of this rich and pro- ductive ...
... friend . He had just written : " Most unaccountable is the supineness of the large exporters in the United States in permitting the French and German houses to prac- tically control the trade interests of this rich and pro- ductive ...
Pagina 28
... friends to whom he still wrote . Still he could not repress a little thrill of satis- faction at knowing that she had not yet married Tolliver or any one else . But evidently Tolliver had not yet abandoned hope . . Well , it made no ...
... friends to whom he still wrote . Still he could not repress a little thrill of satis- faction at knowing that she had not yet married Tolliver or any one else . But evidently Tolliver had not yet abandoned hope . . Well , it made no ...
Pagina 37
... friend to Mr. Geddie , and bring ' em here at once . ' 99 " Saints of the skies ! " said Simon , sleepily , " noth- ing has happened to Mr. Geddie ? " " He's under that tarpauling , " said the mate , point- ing to the boat , " and he's ...
... friend to Mr. Geddie , and bring ' em here at once . ' 99 " Saints of the skies ! " said Simon , sleepily , " noth- ing has happened to Mr. Geddie ? " " He's under that tarpauling , " said the mate , point- ing to the boat , " and he's ...
Pagina 41
... that night when the Valhalla's boat had brought him ashore appar- ently drenched to death by the sea , Doctor Gregg and his other friends had toiled for hours to preserve the little spark of life that remained to him . The 41 SMITH.
... that night when the Valhalla's boat had brought him ashore appar- ently drenched to death by the sea , Doctor Gregg and his other friends had toiled for hours to preserve the little spark of life that remained to him . The 41 SMITH.
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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,...