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Smith, a pleasant but delicate Louisiana lady, had a white maid-servant, in whose fidelity she had unbounded confidence; but this girl was married to a perfect stranger, and off before she had even landed in San Francisco. It was, therefore, finally arranged that, on the California, I was to accompany General Smith to San Francisco as his adjutant-general.
The two men took one of the galley's boats, and rowed together toward San Pietro. It was past midnight when they reached the Campo and broke the marble sepulchre asunder. Pushing back its lid, Gerardo descended into the grave and abandoned himself upon the body of his Elena.
First, thanks to God for safe return, and second, hearty approval of the Adelantado, all his Acts and Measures. There were two parties in San Domingo, and one now echoed in a shout approval of the Adelantado, and the other made here a dead silence, and here a counter-murmur. I heard a man say, "Fool praises fool! Villain brother upholding villain brother!"
More recently they have undergone reduction for a cheap issue. But any book lover knows the value of the original "Seven Lamps" with its San Miniato cover and autograph plates. As to its reception, or at least the anticipation of it. Charlotte Bronte bears witness in a letter to the publishers. "I congratulate you on the approaching publication of Mr. Ruskin's new work.
"I didn't know you Westerners ever indulged in such things. 'Presented to San Francisco by Lotta, 1875," he read. "Little Lotta Crabtree," I explained, "the sweet singer who bewitched the city at a time when gold was still more plentiful than flowers, and her song was greeted by a shower of the glittering metal flung to her feet by enthusiastic miners. But read the second tablet," I suggested.
We must mark, too, or we shall miss significant indications of character, that the same qualities which led him to the quarter-deck of the "San Josef" had led him but an hour before from the rear of the fleet to the van to save the fight, the same quickness to see opportunity, the same promptness to seize it, the same audacity to control it.
We won't argue that point. Is anything perfect arguable? But if I am to stay in San Francisco I must see you." "I'll never see you alone again." "I have no intention of pressing that point! But the open is safe and you must walk with me every day." "I don't know! Oh I don't know! And I think that I should tell Howard." "You will not tell Howard because you are neither cowardly nor cruel.
Also that he would report to Hamblin as soon as possible, and raise a force of men at the fort and get back the stock, if it could be done, and write to the company, giving an account of his success. They were to get his letter at San Bernardino, and if he recovered the stock the emigrants could send back a party to receive it and drive it to California.
Here, too, I first met Senator Sargent's family, and visited them in Sacramento City, where we had a suffrage meeting in the evening and one for women alone next day. At a similar meeting in San Francisco six hundred women were present in Platt's Hall. We discussed marriage, maternity, and social life in general.
It is a national, nay, more, an international service which is performed in these illuminating pages, for in interpreting America to Americans the author is also interpreting America, or a very considerable section of it, to the world at large." San Francisco Chronicle.
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