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 66
... he awaited me in a dark place . Carramba ! - el Señor Presidente to make himself thus secret and obscured ! I think he desired not to be known- but , carajo ! can you shave a man and not see his face ? This 66 Cabbages and Kings.
... he awaited me in a dark place . Carramba ! - el Señor Presidente to make himself thus secret and obscured ! I think he desired not to be known- but , carajo ! can you shave a man and not see his face ? This 66 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 68
... dark places among the banana - trees . Si , Señor . Only at midnight can they be picked by sailor - men who bring them , before daylight comes , to your back ' door . Good aguardiente is a verree difficult fruit to handle , Señor ...
... dark places among the banana - trees . Si , Señor . Only at midnight can they be picked by sailor - men who bring them , before daylight comes , to your back ' door . Good aguardiente is a verree difficult fruit to handle , Señor ...
Pagina 69
... dark stairway . In the hallway above , the saffron light from a hanging lamp allowed him to select the gaudy num- bers on the doors . He turned the knob of Number 9 , entered and closed the door behind him . If that was Isabel Guilbert ...
... dark stairway . In the hallway above , the saffron light from a hanging lamp allowed him to select the gaudy num- bers on the doors . He turned the knob of Number 9 , entered and closed the door behind him . If that was Isabel Guilbert ...
Pagina 75
... dark and proud , glowing or pale as her mood moved her . I do not know if Eve were light or dark , but if such a woman had stood in the garden I know that the apple would have been eaten . This woman was to be Goodwin's fate , and he ...
... dark and proud , glowing or pale as her mood moved her . I do not know if Eve were light or dark , but if such a woman had stood in the garden I know that the apple would have been eaten . This woman was to be Goodwin's fate , and he ...
Pagina 77
... dark com- plexioned man , recently shaven , hurried into the room . All the pictures of President Miraflores represent him as the possessor of a luxuriant supply of dark and carefully tended whiskers ; but the story of the barber ...
... dark com- plexioned man , recently shaven , hurried into the room . All the pictures of President Miraflores represent him as the possessor of a luxuriant supply of dark and carefully tended whiskers ; but the story of the barber ...
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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 Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Karlsefin lady land laugh 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