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
... side - kicker in New York . who never knew what crooked was . of There is a man Here I am work- ing Honesty for a graft , but that man loses money on it . Carrambos ! I get sick at times of this coun- try . Everything's rotten . From ...
... side - kicker in New York . who never knew what crooked was . of There is a man Here I am work- ing Honesty for a graft , but that man loses money on it . Carrambos ! I get sick at times of this coun- try . Everything's rotten . From ...
Pagina 104
... could see it . ' " That night , according to arrangements , me and Henry took the phonograph to a room in a ' dobe house in a dirty side street , where the grass was knee high . ' Twas a long room , lit with 104 Cabbages and Kings.
... could see it . ' " That night , according to arrangements , me and Henry took the phonograph to a room in a ' dobe house in a dirty side street , where the grass was knee high . ' Twas a long room , lit with 104 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 106
... side of it . I was just wondering how Mellinger was going to handle his crowd , when the home talent suddenly opened the services . " That governor man was suitable for uprisings and policies . I judge he was a ready kind of man , who ...
... side of it . I was just wondering how Mellinger was going to handle his crowd , when the home talent suddenly opened the services . " That governor man was suitable for uprisings and policies . I judge he was a ready kind of man , who ...
Pagina 108
... side pocket . 66 Henry whispers to me and wants the pause in the programme interpreted . I whisper back : H. P. is up against a bribe , senator's size , and the coons have got him going . ' I saw Mellinger's hand moving closer to the ...
... side pocket . 66 Henry whispers to me and wants the pause in the programme interpreted . I whisper back : H. P. is up against a bribe , senator's size , and the coons have got him going . ' I saw Mellinger's hand moving closer to the ...
Pagina 109
... intellect and native refinement . He stood up and smoothed back his hair on each side with his hands as you have seen little girls do when they play . " Get behind me , both of you , ' The Phonograph and the Graft 109.
... intellect and native refinement . He stood up and smoothed back his hair on each side with his hands as you have seen little girls do when they play . " Get behind me , both of you , ' The Phonograph and the Graft 109.
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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.