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 94
... give wampum to the hand - organ man and the four - legged chicken in the tent when they're months behind with the grocery and the bread - fruit tree . ' " Then , ' says I , ' we'll export canned music to the Latins ; but I'm mindful of ...
... give wampum to the hand - organ man and the four - legged chicken in the tent when they're months behind with the grocery and the bread - fruit tree . ' " Then , ' says I , ' we'll export canned music to the Latins ; but I'm mindful of ...
Pagina 102
... give the affair the outside appearance of a function . There's im- portant business on hand , but it mustn't show . I can talk to you people . I've been pained for years on account of not having anybody to blow off and brag to . I get ...
... give the affair the outside appearance of a function . There's im- portant business on hand , but it mustn't show . I can talk to you people . I've been pained for years on account of not having anybody to blow off and brag to . I get ...
Pagina 105
... give Señor Mellinger the good evenings . I understood their Spanish talk I ran a pumping engine two years in a Mexican silver mine , and had it pat — but I never let on . " Maybe fifty of ' em had come , and was seated , when in slid ...
... give Señor Mellinger the good evenings . I understood their Spanish talk I ran a pumping engine two years in a Mexican silver mine , and had it pat — but I never let on . " Maybe fifty of ' em had come , and was seated , when in slid ...
Pagina 111
... give you trouble . And if you ever happen to see Billy Renfrow again before I do , tell him I'm coming back to New York as soon as I can make a stake honest . ' - " Me and Henry laid low until the day the steamer came back . When we saw ...
... give you trouble . And if you ever happen to see Billy Renfrow again before I do , tell him I'm coming back to New York as soon as I can make a stake honest . ' - " Me and Henry laid low until the day the steamer came back . When we saw ...
Pagina 119
... give it the outward appearance of a social function . He will apply the torture over my own wine and provender . " " Has he found anyone who saw the valise of money ? " " Not a soul . Even Madama Ortiz , whose eyes , are so sharp for ...
... give it the outward appearance of a social function . He will apply the torture over my own wine and provender . " " Has he found anyone who saw the valise of money ? " " Not a soul . Even Madama Ortiz , whose eyes , are so sharp for ...
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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.