The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

by Beth Brower

And as for your misled determination at being lighthearted, I forbid it. A person of middling status cannot afford to feel happy about everything all of the time. That is an expensive state of mind.”

“You’re not half so bad once you get dolled up a bit, love.” Clearly the epitaph on my future gravestone.

I am delighted with odd turns of events, and marital confessions of one’s banker are categorized as such.

It was the most fiscally romantic thing I had ever heard.

Is it immoral to marry a man solely to gain a library? And if that man happens to be tremendously good looking, is it more or less of a sin?

I enjoy an errant paper. They often have something interesting to say.