Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1919 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina 194
... Beelzebub " owed her twenty pesos . He bowed as he had once bowed to less em- barrassed dames to whom he owed nothing , and passed on . Merchants and their clerks were throwing open the solid wooden doors of their shops . Polite but ...
... Beelzebub " owed her twenty pesos . He bowed as he had once bowed to less em- barrassed dames to whom he owed nothing , and passed on . Merchants and their clerks were throwing open the solid wooden doors of their shops . Polite but ...
Pagina 195
... Beelzebub , " whom desperation had almost incited to attempt an addi- tional " loan . " Three drinking shops the forlorn one next visited in succession . In all of these his money , his credit and his welcome had long since been spent ...
... Beelzebub , " whom desperation had almost incited to attempt an addi- tional " loan . " Three drinking shops the forlorn one next visited in succession . In all of these his money , his credit and his welcome had long since been spent ...
Pagina 196
... Beelzebub " had been floundering in the sea of improbity , holding by a slender life - line to the respectable world that had cast him overboard . He must have felt that with this ultimate shock the line had snapped , and have expe ...
... Beelzebub " had been floundering in the sea of improbity , holding by a slender life - line to the respectable world that had cast him overboard . He must have felt that with this ultimate shock the line had snapped , and have expe ...
Pagina 199
... Beelzebub . " " I like the way you take it . I despise histrionics ; so you will please prepare yourself for the facts without any red fire , * calcium or grace notes on the saxophone . " On the night that His Fly - by - night ...
... Beelzebub . " " I like the way you take it . I despise histrionics ; so you will please prepare yourself for the facts without any red fire , * calcium or grace notes on the saxophone . " On the night that His Fly - by - night ...
Pagina 202
... Beelzebub ; " and he stepped into the dining room through the low window , and brought out a glass and a decanter of brandy . " Take a bracer , anyway , before you go , " he pro- posed , even as a man to the friend whom he enter- tains ...
... Beelzebub ; " and he stepped into the dining room through the low window , and brought out a glass and a decanter of brandy . " Take a bracer , anyway , before you go , " he pro- posed , even as a man to the friend whom he enter- tains ...
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