Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The House of the Misty Star: A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan
I learned to read by secretly borrowing from the wharf master a newspaper or an occasional maga zine which sometimes strayed off a river packet. Then I paid for a four years' course at a neigh boring semi-college by working and by serving the other students. I did everything from polishing their shoes to studying their lessons for them; it earned me many a penny and a varied knowledge of human nature. But nothing ever happened to me as it did to the other girls. I never had a holi day; I was never sick; I never went to a circus; and I never even had a proposal.
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