Word: serena
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...SERENA BLANDISH-A Lady of Qual-ity- Doran ($2.50). "Though it is better to marry a young man, best to marry a rich man, next best to marry a distinguished man, it is better to marry a crossing sweeper than not to marry at all," said Countess Flor di Folio to Serena Blandish when, struck by the girl's beauty, poverty and discretion, she made her a member of her household and launched her upon her desperate enterprise. She met many men who made proposals to her but not of the kind she wanted to hear. For, although Serena...
...have sold nearly all my property, including my first home here, Villa Serena, except the new and less valuable home into which we moved last fall. When the remainder of my property is turned into interest-bearing securities, I can reasonably expect to have, for the first time in my life, an income sufficient for the needs of Mrs. Bryan and myself, even when I am no longer able to add to that income by literary work...