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 112
... with him as a souvenir , " remarked the consul . " Not as a souvenir , " said Keogh . " He'll need two of ' em in New York , running day and night . " VII MONEY MAZE THE new new administration of Anchuria entered 112 Cabbages and Kings.
... with him as a souvenir , " remarked the consul . " Not as a souvenir , " said Keogh . " He'll need two of ' em in New York , running day and night . " VII MONEY MAZE THE new new administration of Anchuria entered 112 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 113
O. Henry. VII MONEY MAZE THE new new administration of Anchuria entered upon its duties and privileges with enthusiasm . Its first act was to send an agent to Coralio with imper- ative orders to recover , if possible , the sum of money ...
O. Henry. VII MONEY MAZE THE new new administration of Anchuria entered upon its duties and privileges with enthusiasm . Its first act was to send an agent to Coralio with imper- ative orders to recover , if possible , the sum of money ...
Pagina 115
... entered it . But of the valise of money they saw nothing . Madame Timotea Ortiz , the proprietress of the hotel in which the game of Fox - in - the - Morning had been played out , told of the coming of the two guest to her house . ― 66 ...
... entered it . But of the valise of money they saw nothing . Madame Timotea Ortiz , the proprietress of the hotel in which the game of Fox - in - the - Morning had been played out , told of the coming of the two guest to her house . ― 66 ...
Pagina 117
... entered a long room looking upon the sea in the opposite wing of the house . The broad jalousies were opened wide ... entering the Garden , you will have her . Just so human , and still so harmonious with Eden seemed Mrs. Money Maze 117.
... entered a long room looking upon the sea in the opposite wing of the house . The broad jalousies were opened wide ... entering the Garden , you will have her . Just so human , and still so harmonious with Eden seemed Mrs. Money Maze 117.
Pagina 118
... entered she looked up , and her lips curved and parted ; her eyelids fluttered twice or thrice a movement remindful ( Poesy forgive us ! ) of the tail - wagging of a faithful dog — and a little ripple went through her like the commotion ...
... entered she looked up , and her lips curved and parted ; her eyelids fluttered twice or thrice a movement remindful ( Poesy forgive us ! ) of the tail - wagging of a faithful dog — and a little ripple went through her like the commotion ...
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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.