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The Californians, by Gertrude Franklin Horn
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Title: The Californians
Author: Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Release Date: June 22, 2007 [eBook #21903]
Language: English
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THE CALIFORNIANS
by
GERTRUDE ATHERTON
John Lane: The Bodley Head London and New York 1898
Third Edition University Press, Cambridge, U. S. A.
TO N. L.
BOOK I
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"I won't study another word to-day!" Helena tipped the table, spilling the books to the floor. "I want to go out in the sun. Go home, Miss Phelps, that's a dear. Anyhow, it won't do you a bit of good to stay."
Miss Phelps, young herself, glanced angrily at her briery charge, longingly at the brilliant blue of sky and bay beyond the long window.
"I leave it to Miss Yorba." Her voic