Complete Writings of O. Henry [i.e. W.S. Porter]Doubleday, Page, 1917 |
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Pagina 25
... walked back to the consulate . This home of a great nation's representative was a wooden structure of two rooms , with a native - built gallery of poles , bamboo and nipa palm running on three sides of it . One room was the official ...
... walked back to the consulate . This home of a great nation's representative was a wooden structure of two rooms , with a native - built gallery of poles , bamboo and nipa palm running on three sides of it . One room was the official ...
Pagina 31
... walked on the little strip of beach under the cocoanuts . The wind was blowing mildly landward , and the surface of the sea was rippled by tiny wavelets . 99 A miniature breaker , spreading with a soft " swish upon the sand brought with ...
... walked on the little strip of beach under the cocoanuts . The wind was blowing mildly landward , and the surface of the sea was rippled by tiny wavelets . 99 A miniature breaker , spreading with a soft " swish upon the sand brought with ...
Pagina 32
... walked back to his house , and set the bottle on his desk . Throwing off his hat and coat , and lighting a lamp -for the night had crowded precipitately upon the brief twilight - he began to examine his piece of sea salvage . By holding ...
... walked back to his house , and set the bottle on his desk . Throwing off his hat and coat , and lighting a lamp -for the night had crowded precipitately upon the brief twilight - he began to examine his piece of sea salvage . By holding ...
Pagina 34
... walked out . He followed a street that led him along the border of the little plaza where a band was playing and people were rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timor- ous señoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled in the ...
... walked out . He followed a street that led him along the border of the little plaza where a band was playing and people were rambling , care - free and indolent . Some timor- ous señoritas scurrying past with fire - flies tangled in the ...
Pagina 35
... walked out to the old Indian well on the hill road . They sat on the curb , and there Geddie made the expected but long - deferred speech . Certain though he had been that she would not say him nay , he was thrilled with joy at the com ...
... walked out to the old Indian well on the hill road . They sat on the curb , and there Geddie made the expected but long - deferred speech . Certain though he had been that she would not say him nay , he was thrilled with joy at the com ...
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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,...