This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... "Let him commute his eternal fear with a temporal Buffering, preventing God's judgment by choosing one of his own."--J KkkmY Tatlob. AN August fog was drifting inland from- jl the bay. In thin places the blue Contra Costa hills showed through, and the general grayness was tinged with pearl. San Francisco ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... "Let him commute his eternal fear with a temporal Buffering, preventing God's judgment by choosing one of his own."--J KkkmY Tatlob. AN August fog was drifting inland from- jl the bay. In thin places the blue Contra Costa hills showed through, and the general grayness was tinged with pearl. San Francisco dripped and steamed along her bristling water-front; derricks loomed black, and yards and topmasts reddened, as a fringe of winter woodland colors up at the turn of the year. Morton Day, a young New Englander who filled the place of " outside man " for Bradshaw & Company, was working over some cargo lists in the general office on Sansome Street. The Bradshaws represented one of the oldest shipping and commission houses in the South Sea and Oriental trade; the time being nearly twenty years ago, before the decay of the great clipper lines, and before the "moral sense " of the laboring man of California had rebelled against the importation of coolies. author. "Well! it was a blazing bluff," he sighed. "I was trying for a stay of proceedings. Had to keep the band playing. The curtain wouldn't rise. They were howling for their money at the door!" Morton Day looked up. A tall figure came between him and the light, bringing the smell of the docks, and advertising its owner's condition in scareheads of shabbiness. "What can I do for you?" asked Day. Neither his time nor sympathies were subject to draught that morning. The answer came coolly, in the accent of an English gentleman. It is not always safe to place an American by his speech: there are so many variations of us, geographical and racial, and we run so to slang and the dialects. But an Englishman's class accent is bred in the bone. He cannot pawn it like his watch, or stake and lose it...
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