Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948 / 2008-07-04 00:00:00

EBOOK THE SISTERS-IN-LAW ***


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THE SISTERS-IN-LAW
A NOVEL OF OUR TIME
BY GERTRUDE ATHERTON



TO DR. ALANSON WEEKS OF SAN FRANCISCO



Several people who enter casually into this novel are leading characters
in other novels and stories of the "California Series," which covers the
social history of the state from the beginning of the last century. They
are Gwynne, his mother, Lady Victoria Gwynne, Isabel Otis and the Hofers
in ANCESTORS; the Randolphs in A DAUGHTER OF THE VINE; Lee Tarlton, Lady
Barnstable, Lady Arrowmount, Coralie Geary, the Montgomerys and Trennahans
in TRANSPLANTED and THE CALIFORNIANS; Rezanov in the novel of that name,
and Chonita Iturbi y Moncada in THE DOOMSWOMAN, both bound in the volume,
BEFORE THE GRINGO CAME; The Price Ruylers in THE AVALANCHE.


BOOK I


CHAPTER I

I

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 watchmen 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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