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...arkled crisply on the surface of the water. I turned to the east, where I knew California must lie, but could see nothing save low lying fog banks — t... ...ves to the low lying fog Chapter III 23 banks that hid San Francisco and the California coast. Rain squalls were driving in between, and I could sca... ...ying on of sail. I overheard Henderson and another of the hunters, Standish, a Californian, talking about it. 36 The Sea Wolf Two years ago he dismas... ...eshness in the air. It was sultry and oppressive, reminding me of what the old Californians term “earthquake weather.” There was something ominous abo... ... for fiction.” Chapter XX 131 “Tell me, why have you always buried yourself in California?” she next asked. “It has not been kind of you. We of the Ea... ...g to me. Wolf Larsen had been quite right. I had stood on my father’s legs. My lawyers and agents had taken care of my money for me. I had had no resp...

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...She might marry at once in every reasonable person’s opinion, whatever the lawyers may say to the contrary.’ ‘Have you been to ask them?’ said Liddy, ... ...u going to do that for?’ ‘Well, I’ve thought it best,’ Oak stammered out. ‘California is the spot I’ve had in my mind to try.’ ‘But it is understood e...

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...ublication in Brandur Magazine, Oct., 1902. Second magazine publication in The California Review, V ol. 2, No. 6, pp. 376 83, 1904. 118 JACK LONDON B... ...e had undergone. He also babbled incoherently of his mother, of sunny Southern California, and a home among the orange groves and flowers. The days wer... ...al great events in his life. One of these had been when his mother bought some California prunes. Two others had been the two times when she cooked cu... ... die Drummond was a professor in the Sociology Department of the University of California, and it was as a professor of sociology that he first crossed... ... * In the years that followed no more lectures were given in the University of California by one Freddie Drummond, and no more books on economics and ... ... I wanted to be adopted. And Peter Bopp said he’d give me a good home, and the lawyers fixed up the papers. But I soon made up my mind that a ranch was...

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... monopoly of the subject, who could not bear all kinds of opinions; doctors, lawyers, uneasy housekeepers who pried into my cupboard and bed when I wa... ... chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will. They tell me of California and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Conclusion ...