Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Page, 1919 - 312 pagine |
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Pagina 13
... Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate , which was conceded to be the coolest spot in Coralio . " Hurry up , " shouted Keogh . " There's a riot in town on ...
... Goodwin at the call . He had been smoking with Willard Ged- die , the consul , on the back porch of the consulate , which was conceded to be the coolest spot in Coralio . " Hurry up , " shouted Keogh . " There's a riot in town on ...
Pagina 14
... Goodwin sat on Keogh's doorstep , and read his tele- gram . It was from Bob Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent ...
... Goodwin sat on Keogh's doorstep , and read his tele- gram . It was from Bob Englehart , an American , who lived in San Mateo , the capital city of Anchuria , eighty miles in the interior . Englehart was a gold miner , an ardent ...
Pagina 15
... Goodwin stood to win a concession to 30,000 manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent . career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin's mind that the government was ...
... Goodwin stood to win a concession to 30,000 manzanas of the finest coffee lands in the interior . Certain incidents in the recent . career of President Miraflores had excited a shrewd suspicion in Goodwin's mind that the government was ...
Pagina 16
... Goodwin's understanding . It informed him that the president of the republic had decamped from the capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in his flight by that winning ad- venturess Isabel ...
... Goodwin's understanding . It informed him that the president of the republic had decamped from the capital city with the contents of the treasury . Furthermore , that he was accompanied in his flight by that winning ad- venturess Isabel ...
Pagina 17
... Goodwin . " Do you make out the meaning of it ? " " Sure , " replied the philosopher of Fortune . " All languages come easy to the man who must know ' em . I've even failed to misunderstand an order to evacuate in classical Chinese when ...
... Goodwin . " Do you make out the meaning of it ? " " Sure , " replied the philosopher of Fortune . " All languages come easy to the man who must know ' em . I've even failed to misunderstand an order to evacuate in classical Chinese when ...
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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 fruit Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Karlsefin lady land looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic revolution 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 tion took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla