Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1919 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina 136
... Felipe . Felipe came and stood before the collector . He was a lad of twenty , not ill - favoured in looks , but with an expression of distant and pondering vacuity . He wore white cotton trousers , down the seams of which he had sewed ...
... Felipe . Felipe came and stood before the collector . He was a lad of twenty , not ill - favoured in looks , but with an expression of distant and pondering vacuity . He wore white cotton trousers , down the seams of which he had sewed ...
Pagina 137
... my instructions go . " Felipe took the commission that the collector handed to him . He gazed through the open window at the sea for a moment , with his customary expres- sion of deep but vain pondering . Then he turned The Admiral 137.
... my instructions go . " Felipe took the commission that the collector handed to him . He gazed through the open window at the sea for a moment , with his customary expres- sion of deep but vain pondering . Then he turned The Admiral 137.
Pagina 138
... Felipe had raked together a pitiful semblance of a military uniforma pair of red trousers , a dingy blue short jacket heavily ornamented with gold braid , and an old fatigue cap that must have been cast away by one of the British ...
... Felipe had raked together a pitiful semblance of a military uniforma pair of red trousers , a dingy blue short jacket heavily ornamented with gold braid , and an old fatigue cap that must have been cast away by one of the British ...
Pagina 139
... Felipe with these words : " Brave sailor , this flag is of your country . Be true , and defend it with your life . Go you with God . " For the first time since his appointment the ad- miral showed a flicker of emotion . He took the ...
... Felipe with these words : " Brave sailor , this flag is of your country . Be true , and defend it with your life . Go you with God . " For the first time since his appointment the ad- miral showed a flicker of emotion . He took the ...
Pagina 140
... Felipe's little store of money was exhausted he went to the collector and raised the question of finances . " Salaries ! " exclaimed the collector , with hands raised ; " Valgame Dios ! not one centavo of my own pay have I received for ...
... Felipe's little store of money was exhausted he went to the collector and raised the question of finances . " Salaries ! " exclaimed the collector , with hands raised ; " Valgame Dios ! not one centavo of my own pay have I received for ...
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