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Shoving her dreams aside yet again, Madison tries to make things work.

When the mother that abandoned them years ago suddenly shows up and moves them to New Hampshire Madison has no choice but to go or lose her brother and sister. It's too bad nothing ever goes the way it's supposed to.

After years of scraping just to get by she lands her dream job and finally has a decent down payment for a house so she can move her brother and sister into a real home. Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights who is described as a 'dark-skinned gypsy' with 'deep black eyes' and a 'handsome figure' but can also be seen as a sinister character.Things are finally looking up for Madison. Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre, though not traditionally handsome has 'great dark eyes, and very fine eyes too' and 'sable waves of hair', 'dark eyes and swarth skin' but holds a secret. ODO Dark: 3.3 Suggestive of or arising from evil sinisterĮxamples in C19th literature of this mysterious/sinister idea include: However, in literature a 'dark stranger' can also be negative drawing on yet another meaning of 'dark': The idea of the 'tall, dark stranger' mentioned by a psychic is probably this one. In Scotland, a tall, dark, stranger is a symbol of good luck in the tradition of first-footing. The 'dark stranger' is a trope in romantic fiction which I think draws on both meanings of 'dark' someone who is perhaps exotic-looking but also unknown, so in this sense attractive/exciting.

In contrast I think 'dark stranger' not only refers to physical attributes but to a certain air of mysteriousness that this individual projects. ODO: Dark (Of a person) having dark skin, hair, or eyes The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that 'dark' when referring to a person can mean skin, hair or eyes, so it could mean any, or all, of those three. 'tall, dark and handsome' the word 'dark' seems to be about physical looks alone, literally tall, dark (eyes/hair/skin) and good-looking.

To a certain extent I don't think there is a conclusive answer to this question, but in the second example you give i.e.