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Pretty much what Emily used to be like before it went viral - grave but with a pretty twinkle. Muff and bonnet in winter, muslin with ribbons in summer. Distant cousin of Little Women. Good!

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But, since earnestness has gone right out of fashion, I don't see it catching on. (DH's father was named Ernest after a friend of his father's, though he never used it; DH also has Ernest as a fn, and he's never used it either. I broke that tradition into fragments!)