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That picture, it was the first and last he painted in California. I kept it long, rejoicing in the admiration it excited, and only grieved that the poor comfort of the praises I daily heard lavished upon it could never reach him. Once, when I was ill in Sacramento, my San Francisco house was burned, but not before its contents had been removed.
I had but to name a great city or a famous locality in any country to be at once present there so far as sight and hearing were concerned. I looked down on modern New York, then upon Chicago, upon San Francisco, and upon New Orleans, finding each of these cities quite unrecognizable but for the natural features which constituted their setting. I visited London.
On the desk before me on that same winter day, was a communication from San Francisco the last to me of several documents from a newly-formed society for applying psychology. The documents were very carefully done, beautifully typed and composed.
Also, if I were you, I'd just naturally hop the rattler for San Francisco, hie myself to some stockbroker's office to buy this stock, and while buying it look over the daily reports of the stock market for the past few years and see if the figures suggested anything to me." "Anything else?" "Thus endeth the first lesson, Miguel. At that it's only a vague suspicion. Get out of my way, boy.
Exclamations of fury broke from the men servants, while the women cried with anger at the sight of the destruction. "Do not concern yourselves," the merchant said. "The house can be rebuilt, and I will see that none of you are the poorer for the loss of your belongings. "Now, girls, let us sit down here and hear from Francisco how it is that he has once again been your saviour."
In the first place, at Carlo's death you became our captain by right, so long as we remain together; and in the second place you have more experience than all of us put together, and a very much better head than most of us, myself included. "Therefore, comrades, I vote that Messer Francisco Hammond be still regarded as our captain, and obeyed as such."
Ah, you Anglo-Saxons, you seem rough in your play to us Latins." "It is no joke, Don Francisco. I was never more earnest in my life," said Ned, stepping from the bush, but still keeping Urrea covered with his rifle. "Your merits as a climber of trees are great, but you interested me more with your wheel of fire.
It eluded discovery with even greater success than San Francisco Bay, and the story of its final settlement is striking and romantic. Neither Cabrillo nor Heceta nor Drake makes mention of it. In 1792 Vancouver followed the coast searchingly, but when he anchored in what he called the "nook" of Trinidad he was entirely ignorant of a near-by harbor.
On the way he told Beppo and his son that the next day he was leaving Venice, and was going to enter the service of Signor Polani. Giuseppi ceased rowing, and, throwing himself down at the bottom of the gondola, began to sob violently, with the abandonment to his emotions common to his race. Then he suddenly sat up. "If you are going, I will go too, Messer Francisco.
"I hear that Governor Gage is coming down to settle the teamsters' strike," said Francisco to his son as they lunched together one sultry October day in 1901. "I can't understand why he's delayed until now." "Probably wanted to keep out of it as long as possible," responded Frank.
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