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Pagina 261
Everybody called him “ Dicky ” ; everybody cheered up at the sight of him —
especially the natives , to whom his marvellous red hair and his free - and - easy
style were a constant delight and envy . Wherever you went in the town you
would ...
Everybody called him “ Dicky ” ; everybody cheered up at the sight of him —
especially the natives , to whom his marvellous red hair and his free - and - easy
style were a constant delight and envy . Wherever you went in the town you
would ...
Pagina 262
One day Dicky saw Pasa , the daughter of Madama Ortiz , sitting in the side - door
of the Hotel des los Estranjeros . He stopped in his tracks , still , for the first time in
Coralio ; and then he sped , swift as a deer , to find Vasquez , a gilded native ...
One day Dicky saw Pasa , the daughter of Madama Ortiz , sitting in the side - door
of the Hotel des los Estranjeros . He stopped in his tracks , still , for the first time in
Coralio ; and then he sped , swift as a deer , to find Vasquez , a gilded native ...
Pagina 263
... and there would be a rustling of stiffly - starched white trousers as one of the
caballeros would propose an adjournment to the bar . That Dicky Maloney would
, sooner or later , explore this field was a thing to be foreseen . There Dicky 263.
... and there would be a rustling of stiffly - starched white trousers as one of the
caballeros would propose an adjournment to the bar . That Dicky Maloney would
, sooner or later , explore this field was a thing to be foreseen . There Dicky 263.
Pagina 264
There were no back - against - the - wall poses in Dicky ' s theory of wooing . His
plan of subjection was an attack at close range . To carry the fortress with one
concentrated , ardent , eloquent , irresistible escalade — that was Dicky ' s way .
There were no back - against - the - wall poses in Dicky ' s theory of wooing . His
plan of subjection was an attack at close range . To carry the fortress with one
concentrated , ardent , eloquent , irresistible escalade — that was Dicky ' s way .
Pagina 265
Sometimes mysterious things happened at night about Dicky ' s shop . While the
front of it was dark , in the little room back of it Dicky and a few of his friends
would sit about a table carrying on some kind of very quiet negocios until quite
late .
Sometimes mysterious things happened at night about Dicky ' s shop . While the
front of it was dark , in the little room back of it Dicky and a few of his friends
would sit about a table carrying on some kind of very quiet negocios until quite
late .
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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...
Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Cabbages and Kings Watermark edition |
| Autore | O. Henry |
| Editore | Doubleday, Page, 1904 |
| Lunghezza | 312 pagine |
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