The Sisters-In-Law

The Sisters-In-Law

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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Editorial:
1st World Library - Literary Society
Año de edición:
2006
Materia
Antologías (no poéticas)
ISBN:
9781421818320
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The long street rising and falling and rising again until its farthest crest high in the east seemed to brush the fading stars, was deserted even by the private watch-men that guarded the homes of the apprehensive in the Western Addition. Alexina darted across and into the shadows of the avenue that led up to her old-fashioned home, a relic of San Francisco’s 'early days,' perched high on the steepest of the casual hills in that city of a hundred hills.

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