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A Ward of the Golden Gate

CHAPTER III
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"One would really think it was necessary for me to get married to become anybody at all, or have any standing whatever.

And, whatever you do, don't go talking of me as if I were named after a vegetable.

'Yerba Buena' is the name of an island in the bay just off San Francisco.

I'm named after that." "But I don't see the difference, dear.

The island was named after the vine that grows on it." "YOU don't see the difference ?" said Yerba, darkly.


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