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 103
... friends . If a mule driver takes off his hat to an official , that man figures it out that he's a popular idol , and sets his pegs to stir up a revolution and upset the administration . It's one my little chores as private secretary to ...
... friends . If a mule driver takes off his hat to an official , that man figures it out that he's a popular idol , and sets his pegs to stir up a revolution and upset the administration . It's one my little chores as private secretary to ...
Pagina 105
... Mellinger explained , fluent , in the Castilian idioms , that his soul was disconcerted with joy at introducing to his respected friends America's great- est invention , the wonder of the age . Henry The Phonograph and the Graft 105.
... Mellinger explained , fluent , in the Castilian idioms , that his soul was disconcerted with joy at introducing to his respected friends America's great- est invention , the wonder of the age . Henry The Phonograph and the Graft 105.
Pagina 107
... friendship and aid so much that ' - Mellinger raises his hand , but the governor man bot- tles him up . Do not speak until I have done . ' " The governor man then draws a package wrapped in paper from his pocket , and lays it on the ...
... friendship and aid so much that ' - Mellinger raises his hand , but the governor man bot- tles him up . Do not speak until I have done . ' " The governor man then draws a package wrapped in paper from his pocket , and lays it on the ...
Pagina 116
... friend to the new adminis- tration , and one who was not to be carelessly dealt with in respect to either his honesty or his courage . Even the private secretary of His Excellency hesi- tated to have this rubber prince and mahogany ...
... friend to the new adminis- tration , and one who was not to be carelessly dealt with in respect to either his honesty or his courage . Even the private secretary of His Excellency hesi- tated to have this rubber prince and mahogany ...
Pagina 123
... friends here , I was keeping a lookout for the president , having been notified of his flight by a telegram in our national cipher from Englehart , one of our leaders in the cap- ital . About ten o'clock that night I saw a man and a ...
... friends here , I was keeping a lookout for the president , having been notified of his flight by a telegram in our national cipher from Englehart , one of our leaders in the cap- ital . About ten o'clock that night I saw a man and a ...
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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.