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...eyes were of "green ice," her hair was golden. She glorified in an expressionless face and almost no lips. Such a woman he would not love, he thought, so much as love to own. In order to own her he sacrificed his cherished friend Stemway who had a "dark soul...
...DARK STAR-Lorna Moon-Bobbs Merrill...
Born under a dark star, Nancy Pringle never knew whether it was the Master of Fassefern who had sired her, or Willie Weams, the groom. Divot Meg, the village's woman, out of compassion for Nancy, swore it was the master, then strangled Nancy's mother lest she quaver her own doubts in the matter. Others, less generous, preferred to believe it was the groom; hoped thereby to establish superiority over the spirited little orphan. The flaccid minister took her in; his wife sanctimoniously bullied her; his old mother defended her in malicious warfare with the wife...
...Dark Star is a first novel of impressive calibre...
...stores, 364 are 5? & 10? 147 are 25? to $1. In 1028 they sold $147,465,448 worth of merchandise. Mr. Kresge, however, has not forgotten boyhood days on a Pennsylvania farm when he rose at 4:30 a. m. and worked till dark. His clothing is still inexpensive, and he will search long for a lost golf ball. He is a solid, round, quiet man except when he is aroused against the Big Demon Rum or the Little Devil Tobacco or one of the many other worldly evils in combatting which the Kresge fortune has been freely expended...