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...Gentleman of Leisure. The diamonds are stolen again?no, beg pardon, its pearls, this time?three strings of them???one genuine and two artificial. An incredible burglar says " demm" and " dese" and " dey " on the slightest provocation. Fashionable life at Bayshore is full of butlers. Sigrid Holmquist is very pretty. Jack Holt has a nice mustache. A villain is known by his white, white spats, etc. Which may sound incoherent, but is as faithful a report as possible of as chaotic a cinema inanity as has flickered out the storehouse for some time...
Then there are the Moon Poems ?all of them???and some of the Verses of an Especially Inscriptional Character, where Mr. Lindsay's very much unappreciated lyric gift is seen at its best. And My Fathers Came from Kentucky?and others?many others?kettledrum, piccolo, flute and birchbark moose-call?in fact, almost every instrument. Really, the only thing to do with a book like this is to read...
...died in San Antonio? Bee had passed through much, including an unhappy love-affair. She and Guy met almost as strangers? but he knew from the first moment that he could never be happy with anybody else. So he told the dessicated Dessie that all was off between them???and she went right out and married the man he had robbed...
...revival of an ancient and baseless scandal about Stella herself?made the issue plain. Stella saw that Laurel wasn't her kind? that she herself was the handicap on Laurel's becoming "nice." So she gave Laurel up in the only way that could bring a definite breach between them???let Stephen divorce her and married the wreck of an ex-society-riding-master, a worthy whom Laurel couldn't bear. She smashed Laurel's faith in her, and told her she was going to South America with her new husband. But she didn't. The novel ends where...