Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1912 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 11
O. Henry. CHAPTER ONE " Fox - in - the - Morning " 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 ...
O. Henry. CHAPTER ONE " Fox - in - the - Morning " 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 ...
Pagina 12
... Coralio . Telegrams do not often 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 expedite the delivery of the despatch ...
... Coralio . Telegrams do not often 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 expedite the delivery of the despatch ...
Pagina 13
... Coralio . " Hurry up , " shouted Keogh . " There's a riot in town on account of a telegram that's come for you . You want to be careful about these things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You ...
... Coralio . " Hurry up , " shouted Keogh . " There's a riot in town on account of a telegram that's come for you . You want to be careful about these things , my boy . It won't do to trifle with the feelings of the public this way . You ...
Pagina 15
... 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 . There existed ...
... 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 . There existed ...
Pagina 17
... Coralio and the capital . The hint that the " boodle " was " six figures short " made the condition of the national treasury lamentably clear . Also it was convincingly true that the ingoing party - its way now made a pacific one ...
... Coralio and the capital . The hint that the " boodle " was " six figures short " made the condition of the national treasury lamentably clear . Also it was convincingly true that the ingoing party - its way now made a pacific one ...
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