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Let us observe who occupy them. At a glance it is apparent they are in possession of the "familias principales," the aristocracy of the settlement. Yes there is the rich "comerciante," Don Jose Rincon, his fat wife, and four fat sleepy-looking daughters.
"Yes, the old Rincon Hill family," the man replied. Mrs. Robson sat down with preening self-satisfaction. Wearily the daughter dropped into the seat which Mrs. Condor proffered. The name of Ned Stillman was not unfamiliar to any San Franciscan who scanned the social news with even a casual glance, and Claire had a vague remembrance that Mrs.
Didn't they take the San Antonio ranch in Oakland, defend it with cannon, and put old Peralta in jail for bothering them with his claims of ownership?" He laughed. "It's a rare joke, this land business. If we squat on the Rincon, who'll dispossess us? Answer me that." "But it's government ground. It's leased to Ted Shillaber," one objected. "To the devil with Shillaber," McTurpin answered.
On the road, Rincon said to his new acquaintance, "Does your worship happen to be a Thief?" "Yes," replied the lad, "I have that honour, for the service of God and of all good people; but I cannot boast of being among the most distinguished, since I am as yet but in the year of my novitiate." "It is news to me," remarked Cortado, "that there are thieves for the service of God and of good people."
Off to the west, serving as a sentinel, is Russian Hill, 360 feet high. It is a striking feature in the ever-expanding city, and it is a notable landmark for the San Franciscan. In the southeastern part of the city is Rincon Hill, 120 feet in height, attracting to itself the interest of that part of the population whose homes are in its shadow.
It was the drifting smoke that seemed to bind all together and make the city fit for humanity. Gwynne pointed to a spot far to the southeast, in the valley between Market Street the wide diagonal highway that cut the city in two, and ran from the ferries almost to the foot of Twin Peaks and the high mound known as Rincon Hill.
When things had attained this point, it chanced that a Muleteer came out at the porch, and, as Rincon had anticipated, he soon proposed to make a third in their game. "Clean from dust and straw" limpios de polvo y paja is a phrase equivalent to "free of the king's dues."
On the occasion referred to, I was strolling on Rincon Hill at that time the fashionable residence quarter of San Francisco in company with Mr. J. H. Wildes, whose cousin, the late Admiral Frank Wildes, achieved fame in the battle of Manila Bay. Mr. Wildes called my attention to an approaching figure and said: "Here comes Bret Harte, a man of unusual literary ability.
Here he was visited by some Liberal officers, among others by Colonel Jose Rincon Gallardo and his brother Don Pedro, the former of whom spoke to him in contemptuous terms of the treason of Colonel Lopez. "Such men are used, and then kicked," he said. By ten o'clock all was over.
From thence to Mayaguez, through the village of Rincon and the town of Anasco, the road is generally good, but on the seashore it is sometimes interrupted by shelving rocks. Across the valley of Anasco the road is carried through a boggy tract, with bridges over several deep creeks of fresh water.
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