Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, vol. 5

I took Treasure Island to church with me as a talisman. What a lovely bible, Mrs. Tribly said. Isn't it just? I replied, hoping she would not ask me to read a favorite verse aloud.I do not believe the psalmist wrote,Fifteen men on a dead man's chest,Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighbourhood of St. Crispian's. But Emma's plans for a ch...