Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 196
... Blythe walked to the next corner and stood there while he brushed the sand from his garments and re- polished his glasses . - " I've got to do it - oh , I've got to do it , " he told himself , aloud . " If I had a quart of rum I believe ...
... Blythe walked to the next corner and stood there while he brushed the sand from his garments and re- polished his glasses . - " I've got to do it - oh , I've got to do it , " he told himself , aloud . " If I had a quart of rum I believe ...
Pagina 197
... Blythe , " said Goodwin , looking " Come in and have a chair . Anything I can do for you ? " up . " I want to speak to you in private . " Goodwin nodded at his secretary , who strolled out under a mango tree and lit a cigarette . Blythe ...
... Blythe , " said Goodwin , looking " Come in and have a chair . Anything I can do for you ? " up . " I want to speak to you in private . " Goodwin nodded at his secretary , who strolled out under a mango tree and lit a cigarette . Blythe ...
Pagina 198
... Blythe . Your friends have done all they could to help you to brace up . You won't help your- self . There's no use furnishing you with money to ruin yourself with any longer . " " Dear man , " said Blythe , tilting back his chair ...
... Blythe . Your friends have done all they could to help you to brace up . You won't help your- self . There's no use furnishing you with money to ruin yourself with any longer . " " Dear man , " said Blythe , tilting back his chair ...
Pagina 201
... Blythe squarely , " how much money do you owe in this town , not including the sums you have borrowed ' from me ? " - 6 " Five hundred at a rough guess , " answered Blythe , lightly . 66 Go somewhere in the town and draw up a sched- ule ...
... Blythe squarely , " how much money do you owe in this town , not including the sums you have borrowed ' from me ? " - 6 " Five hundred at a rough guess , " answered Blythe , lightly . 66 Go somewhere in the town and draw up a sched- ule ...
Pagina 202
... Blythe , cheerily . 66 I was asleep all the time on the cot under Madama Ortiz's orange trees ; and I shake off the dust of Co- ralio forever . I'll play fair . No more of the lotus for me . Your proposition is O. K. You're a good ...
... Blythe , cheerily . 66 I was asleep all the time on the cot under Madama Ortiz's orange trees ; and I shake off the dust of Co- ralio forever . I'll play fair . No more of the lotus for me . Your proposition is O. K. You're a good ...
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood bananas beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul Coralio crew Dalesburg dark Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic Rosine sail sand says seemed Señor Goodwin señorita shoes shore sloop smile smoke Spanish Spanish Main steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thousand tintype took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla
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Pagina 14 - Nibj skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - 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 11 - CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras.
Pagina 234 - He was the absolute despot and the idol of his people. The wealth of the country poured into his hands. Other presidents had been rapacious without reason. Losada amassed enormous wealth, but his people had their share of the benefits. The joint in his armor was his insatiate passion for monuments and tokens commemorating his glory. In every town he caused to be erected statues of himself bearing legends in praise of his greatness. In the walls of every public edifice, tablets were fixed reciting...