Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Company, 1904 - 344 pagine |
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Pagina 271
... Dicky called to the sentry who was pacing before the door : " What steamer comes ? " " The Catarina . " " Of the Vesuvius line ? " " Without doubt , of that line . " " Go you , picarilla , " said Dicky joyously to Pasa , " to the ...
... Dicky called to the sentry who was pacing before the door : " What steamer comes ? " " The Catarina . " " Of the Vesuvius line ? " " Without doubt , of that line . " " Go you , picarilla , " said Dicky joyously to Pasa , " to the ...
Pagina 272
... Dicky , shortly , " but this . You go tell the captain of the Catarina that Dicky Maloney wants to see him as soon as he can conveniently come . Tell him where I am . Hurry . That's all . " The consul , glad to be let off so easily ...
... Dicky , shortly , " but this . You go tell the captain of the Catarina that Dicky Maloney wants to see him as soon as he can conveniently come . Tell him where I am . Hurry . That's all . " The consul , glad to be let off so easily ...
Pagina 273
... Dicky looked at him unsmilingly . His red hair could not detract from his attitude of severe dignity as he stood ... Dicky , soft- ening as he crinkled the envelope and looked down at the half - inch thickness of smooth , dingy bills ...
... Dicky looked at him unsmilingly . His red hair could not detract from his attitude of severe dignity as he stood ... Dicky , soft- ening as he crinkled the envelope and looked down at the half - inch thickness of smooth , dingy bills ...
Pagina 274
... Dicky , " is held by the Almighty , Wall Street and Cupid . So , the question remains . " " This , " queried the captain , including Dicky's surroundings in a significant gesture of his hand , “ is it it is not it is not connected with ...
... Dicky , " is held by the Almighty , Wall Street and Cupid . So , the question remains . " " This , " queried the captain , including Dicky's surroundings in a significant gesture of his hand , “ is it it is not it is not connected with ...
Pagina 275
... Dicky was thought- ful and grave . His red hair was in an unusual state of disorder . Pasa's fingers often ached to smooth and arrange it , but Dicky would never allow it . He was poring , to - night , over a great litter of maps and ...
... Dicky was thought- ful and grave . His red hair was in an unusual state of disorder . Pasa's fingers often ached to smooth and arrange it , but Dicky would never allow it . He was poring , to - night , over a great litter of maps and ...
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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...