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 140
... pesos ? Mira ! you will see a revolution in this country very soon . A good sign of it is when the government calls all the time for pesos , pesos , pesos , and pays none out . " Felipe left the collector's office with a look almost of ...
... pesos ? Mira ! you will see a revolution in this country very soon . A good sign of it is when the government calls all the time for pesos , pesos , pesos , and pays none out . " Felipe left the collector's office with a look almost of ...
Pagina 154
... pesos in money of the Estados Unidos more than your lying government will pay you in twenty years . " 6 Don Sabas pressed a plump purse against the youth's hand . The admiral gave no heed to the words or the movement . Braced against ...
... pesos in money of the Estados Unidos more than your lying government will pay you in twenty years . " 6 Don Sabas pressed a plump purse against the youth's hand . The admiral gave no heed to the words or the movement . Braced against ...
Pagina 179
... pesos , ' repeats the little man . ' Five dol- lee , you give ? ' " " Twas not such a bad little man . He had hesi- tations at first , sayin ' that passengers leavin ' the country had to have papers and passports , but at last he took ...
... pesos , ' repeats the little man . ' Five dol- lee , you give ? ' " " Twas not such a bad little man . He had hesi- tations at first , sayin ' that passengers leavin ' the country had to have papers and passports , but at last he took ...
Pagina 194
... pesos . He bowed as he had once bowed to less em- barrassed dames to whom he owed nothing , and passed on . Merchants and their clerks were throwing open the solid wooden doors of their shops . Polite but cool were the glances they cast ...
... pesos . He bowed as he had once bowed to less em- barrassed dames to whom he owed nothing , and passed on . Merchants and their clerks were throwing open the solid wooden doors of their shops . Polite but cool were the glances they cast ...
Pagina 198
... that I was still virtuous though under heavy pressure . The wages of sin should be something higher than a peso worth forty - eight cents . Let's talk business . I am the villain in the third act ; and I must 198 Cabbages and Kings.
... that I was still virtuous though under heavy pressure . The wages of sin should be something higher than a peso worth forty - eight cents . Let's talk business . I am the villain in the third act ; and I must 198 Cabbages and Kings.
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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 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