Cabbages and KingsA. L. Burt Company, 1904 - 312 pagine O. Henry wove together several stories into this highly episodic narrative. Set in the fictional country of Coralio in Central America, a banana republic where larceny is rampant and revolution lurks in every impoverished back alley, this novel offers cutting satire of contemporary politics and prejudices. Yet, in the end, lovers are reunited, poverty obliterated, and sentiment satisfied. |
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Pagina 19
... Keogh . The down trail from the capital was at all times a weary road to travel . A jiggety - joggety journey it was ; ice - cold and hot , wet and dry . The trail climbed appalling mountains , wound like a rotten string about the brows ...
... Keogh . The down trail from the capital was at all times a weary road to travel . A jiggety - joggety journey it was ; ice - cold and hot , wet and dry . The trail climbed appalling mountains , wound like a rotten string about the brows ...
Pagina 20
... Keogh threw his hat upon the grass by the door and expelled a tremendous sigh . What's the trouble , Billy ? " asked Goodwin , pausing . That's the first time I ever heard you sigh . " 66 " " Tis the last , " said Keogh . " With that ...
... Keogh threw his hat upon the grass by the door and expelled a tremendous sigh . What's the trouble , Billy ? " asked Goodwin , pausing . That's the first time I ever heard you sigh . " 66 " " Tis the last , " said Keogh . " With that ...
Pagina 21
... Keogh ; " but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say she can look at a man once , and he'll turn monkey and climb trees to pick cocoanuts for her . Think of that ...
... Keogh ; " but they say she's got all the ladies of mythology , sculp- ture , and fiction reduced to chromos . They say she can look at a man once , and he'll turn monkey and climb trees to pick cocoanuts for her . Think of that ...
Pagina 22
... Keogh ; " but she won't . " Tis not a tintype gallery , but the gallery of the gods that she's fitted to adorn . She's a very wicked lady , and the president man is in luck . I hear Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all ...
... Keogh ; " but she won't . " Tis not a tintype gallery , but the gallery of the gods that she's fitted to adorn . She's a very wicked lady , and the president man is in luck . I hear Clancy swearing in the back room for having to do all ...
Pagina 85
... Keogh and Johnny seemed to conceive a mutual friendship at once . Keogh took the new con- sul about town and presented him to the handful of Americans and the smaller number of French and Germans who made up the " foreign " contingent ...
... Keogh and Johnny seemed to conceive a mutual friendship at once . Keogh took the new con- sul about town and presented him to the handful of Americans and the smaller number of French and Germans who made up the " foreign " contingent ...
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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 cool Coralio crew Dalesburg Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic 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 took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla
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Pagina 14 - His Nibs 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 to 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.