This etext was scanned by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1922 Macmillan and Co. edition. Proofing was by David, Jeremy Kwock and Uzma G. PANDORA by Henry James CHAPTER I It has long been the custom of the North German Lloyd steamers, w
The Jolly Corner by Henry James CHAPTER I "Every one asks me what I 'think' of everything," said Spencer Brydon; "and I make answer as I can - begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn't matter to any of them really,"
In general, when Rosier presented himself on a Thursday evening, his first recognition was for the walls of the saloon; there were three or four objects his eyes really yearned for. But after his talk with Madame Merle he felt the extreme seriousness of his position; and now, when he ...
Plummer began to roam the area between Elk City, Florence, and Lewiston. In Orofino,Idaho, he killed asaloonkeeper named Patrick Ford. When the saloonkeeper kicked Plummer and some of his friends out of the saloon, Ford followed them to the stable, where he fired upon them. Plummer return...
It has sometimes been reported that the encounter with Frank Cahill took place in a saloon. Again on the run, McCarty, who had begun to refer to himself as "Willam H. Bonney", next turned up in the house of Heiskell Jones in Pecos Valley, New Mexico. Apaches had stolen ...
historical persons in the American West have figured prominently in latter-day re-creations of the era.Wild Bill Hickok,Wyatt Earp, and other lawmen have frequently been portrayed, as have such outlaws asBilly the KidandJesse James. The western has always provided a rich mine for stories of...
scene from HarveyFrom left, Charles Drake, Peggy Dow, Josephine Hull, and James Stewart in the film Harvey (1950).(more) Koster began the decade with Wabash Avenue (1950), a musical about a producer (Victor Mature) and a saloon owner (Phil Harris) competing for a chanteuse (Betty Grable...
His walk had become fairly good by the time he reached the great white edifice that unfolds its repeated colonnades and uplifts its isolated dome at the end of a long vista of saloons and tobacco-shops. He slowly climbed the great steps, hesitating a little, even wondering why he had ...
Across the street the lights of a small saloon betrayed its hectic hospitality. "Go in the back room of that saloon," said Wade, "and wait. I'll go find out what's doing and let you know. You may take two drinks while I am gone—no more." At ten minutes to one o'clock Wade...