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 70
... . " The lady neither moved nor replied , but steadily regarded the cigar in Goodwin's hand . " We , " continued the dictator , thoughtfully re- garding the neat buckskin shoe on his gently swing- ing 70 Cabbages and Kings.
... . " The lady neither moved nor replied , but steadily regarded the cigar in Goodwin's hand . " We , " continued the dictator , thoughtfully re- garding the neat buckskin shoe on his gently swing- ing 70 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 74
... moved toward the closed door that connected the two rooms , but stopped , and half turned and be- stowed upon Goodwin a grave , searching look that ended in a quizzical smile . " You force my door , " she said , " and you follow your ...
... moved toward the closed door that connected the two rooms , but stopped , and half turned and be- stowed upon Goodwin a grave , searching look that ended in a quizzical smile . " You force my door , " she said , " and you follow your ...
Pagina 75
... 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 did not know it ; but he must have felt the ...
... 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 did not know it ; but he must have felt the ...
Pagina 84
... moving for some foreign appointment . He would go away - away . Perhaps in years to come Rosine would think how true , how faithful his love had been , and would drop a tear - maybe in the cream she would be skimming for Pink Dawson's ...
... moving for some foreign appointment . He would go away - away . Perhaps in years to come Rosine would think how true , how faithful his love had been , and would drop a tear - maybe in the cream she would be skimming for Pink Dawson's ...
Pagina 108
... moving closer to the package . ' He's weakening , ' I whispered to Henry . remind him , ' says Henry , of the peanut ... moved while it was playing , and the governor man kept his eyes steady on Mellinger . I saw Mellinger's head go up ...
... moving closer to the package . ' He's weakening , ' I whispered to Henry . remind him , ' says Henry , of the peanut ... moved while it was playing , and the governor man kept his eyes steady on Mellinger . I saw Mellinger's head go up ...
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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.