Complete Writings of O. Henry [i.e. W.S. Porter]Doubleday, Page, 1917 |
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Pagina 10
... passed quickly . Telegrams do not often come to any one in 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 ...
... passed quickly . Telegrams do not often come to any one in 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 ...
Pagina 20
... passed the house of Bernard Brannigan . It was a modern wooden building , two stories in height . The ground floor was occupied by Brannigan's store , the upper one contained the living apartments . A wide cool porch ran around the ...
... passed the house of Bernard Brannigan . It was a modern wooden building , two stories in height . The ground floor was occupied by Brannigan's store , the upper one contained the living apartments . A wide cool porch ran around the ...
Pagina 28
... passed between them , though he had sometimes heard of her through the dilatory cor- respondence with the few friends to whom he still wrote . Still he could not repress a little thrill of satis- faction at knowing that she had not yet ...
... passed between them , though he had sometimes heard of her through the dilatory cor- respondence with the few friends to whom he still wrote . Still he could not repress a little thrill of satis- faction at knowing that she had not yet ...
Pagina 31
... passing of the Idalia had done for him still more . It had brought the calm and peace of a situation from which all un ... passed without a sign , not even his unconscious self need cling to the past any longer . After dinner , when the ...
... passing of the Idalia had done for him still more . It had brought the calm and peace of a situation from which all un ... passed without a sign , not even his unconscious self need cling to the past any longer . After dinner , when the ...
Pagina 33
... less assailable one that the bottle contained a message to himself . Ida knew he was in Coralio ; she must have launched the bottle while the yacht was passing and the wind blowing fairly toward the 33 THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE.
... less assailable one that the bottle contained a message to himself . Ida knew he was in Coralio ; she must have launched the bottle while the yacht was passing and the wind blowing fairly toward the 33 THE LOTUS AND THE BOTTLE.
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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,...