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Spinners' Club. The Spinners' Book of Fiction
The Spinners' Book of Fiction
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PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY. SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK
TO INA D. COOLBRITH
THE STORIES
THE ILLUSTRATIONS
WHEREFORE?
CONCHA ARGÜELLO, SISTER DOMINICA
THE FORD OF CRÈVECŒUR
A CALIFORNIAN
GIDEON'S KNOCK
A YELLOW MAN AND A WHITE
THE JUDGMENT OF MAN
THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN
DOWN THE FLUME WITH THE SNEATH PIANO
THE CONTUMACY OF SARAH L. WALKER
BREAKING THROUGH
A LOST STORY
HANTU
MISS JUNO
A LITTLE SAVAGE GENTLEMAN
LOVE AND ADVERTISING
THE TEWANA
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Spinners' Club
Published by Good Press, 2019
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"Perhaps," she said. "Who knows?"
It was Christmas eve and all the inmates of the convent paused in their sorrow to rejoice in the happy portent of the death and burial of one whom they loyally believed to be no less entitled to beatification than Catherine herself. Her miracles may not have been of the irreducible protoplastic order, but they had been miracles to the practical Californian mind, notwithstanding, and worthy of the attention of consistory and Pope. Moreover, this was the season when all the vivacity and gaiety of her youth had revived, and she made merry, not only for the children left at the convent by their nomadic parents, but for all the children of the town, whatever the faith of their somewhat anxious elders.
