The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary TwinsAmerican Publishing Company, 1894 - 432 páginas When a mulatto slave woman switches her own infant with the look-alike son of a wealthy merchant, it takes Pudd'nhead Wilson, the town eccentric, to put things right again. |
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... aunt Patsy " by everybody - lived in a snug and comely cottage with her daughter Rowena , who was nineteen , romantic , amiable , and very pretty , but otherwise of no conse- quence . Rowena had a couple of young brothers - also of no ...
... aunt Patsy " by everybody - lived in a snug and comely cottage with her daughter Rowena , who was nineteen , romantic , amiable , and very pretty , but otherwise of no conse- quence . Rowena had a couple of young brothers - also of no ...
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... Aunt Patsy called them by their Christian names almost from the begin- ning . She was full of the keenest curiosity about them , and showed it ; they responded by talking about themselves , which pleased her greatly . It presently ...
... Aunt Patsy called them by their Christian names almost from the begin- ning . She was full of the keenest curiosity about them , and showed it ; they responded by talking about themselves , which pleased her greatly . It presently ...
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... Aunt Patsy Cooper's . He asked after her nephew Tom , and she said he was on his way home , and that she was expecting him to arrive a little before night ; and added that she and the Judge were gratified to gather from his letters that ...
... Aunt Patsy Cooper's . He asked after her nephew Tom , and she said he was on his way home , and that she was expecting him to arrive a little before night ; and added that she and the Judge were gratified to gather from his letters that ...
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... Aunt Patsy was in distress to know if they had lost anything . They found that the dagger was gone , and they notified the police and pawnbrokers everywhere . It was a great haul , yes , but the old woman won't get any- thing out of it ...
... Aunt Patsy was in distress to know if they had lost anything . They found that the dagger was gone , and they notified the police and pawnbrokers everywhere . It was a great haul , yes , but the old woman won't get any- thing out of it ...
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... Aunt Patsy Cooper's , also great robber - raid ; Friday evening , dramatic kicking of the heir of the chief citizen in presence of four hundred people ; Saturday morning , emergence as practising lawyer of the long- submerged Pudd'nhead ...
... Aunt Patsy Cooper's , also great robber - raid ; Friday evening , dramatic kicking of the heir of the chief citizen in presence of four hundred people ; Saturday morning , emergence as practising lawyer of the long- submerged Pudd'nhead ...
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins Mark Twain Visualização completa - 1894 |
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins Mark Twain Visualização completa - 1894 |
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Página 84 - One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Página 164 - October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
Página 212 - If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Página 244 - Calendar. DAWSON'S LANDING was comfortably finishing its season of dull repose and waiting patiently for the duel. Count Luigi was waiting, too; but not patiently, rumor said. Sunday came, and Luigi insisted on having his challenge conveyed. Wilson carried it. Judge...
Página 187 - My great-great-great-gran'father en yo' great-great-great-great-gran'father was Ole Cap'n John Smith, de highest blood dat Ole Virginny ever turned out, en his great-great-gran'mother, or somers along back dah, was Pocahontas de Injun queen, en her husbun' was a nigger king outen Africa— en yit here you is, a slinkin' outen a duel en disgracin' our whole line like a ornery lowdown hound!
Página 15 - Wilson's Calendar. THE SCENE of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis. In 1830 it was a snug little collection of modest one- and two-story frame dwellings whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose vines, honeysuckles and morning-glories.
Página 261 - Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman : if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife ; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say she did it with her teeth.— Pudd'nAead Wilson's Calendar.
Página 308 - I had a sufficiently hard time with that tale, because it changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it — a most embarrassing circumstance. But what was a great deal worse was, that it was not one story, but two stories tangled together; and they obstructed and interrupted each other at every turn and created no end of confusion and annoyance.