Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948 / 2008-06-11 00:00:00
EBOOK, SLEEPING FIRES ***
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SLEEPING FIRES
A NOVEL
BY GERTRUDE ATHERTON
SLEEPING FIRES
I
There was no Burlingame in the Sixties, the Western Addition was a
desert of sand dunes and the goats gambolled through the rocky
gulches of Nob Hill. But San Francisco had its Rincon Hill and South
Park, Howard and Fulsom and Harrison Streets, coldly aloof from the
tumultuous hot heart of the City north of Market Street.
In this residence section the sidewalks were also wooden and uneven
and the streets muddy in winter and dusty in summer, but the houses,
some of which had "come round the Horn," were large, simple, and
stately. Those on the three long streets had deep gardens before
them, with willow trees and oaks above the flower beds, quaint ugly
statues, and fountains that were sometimes dry. The narrower houses
of South Park crowded one another about the oval enclosure and their
common garden was the smaller oval of green and roses.
On Rincon Hill the architecture was more varied and the houses that
covered all sides of the hill were surrounded by high-walled gardens
whose heavy bushes of Castilian roses were the only reminder in this
already modern San Francisco of the Spain that had made California a
land of romance for nearly a century; the last resting place on this
planet of the Spirit of Arcadia ere she vanished into space before
the gold-seekers.
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