The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
Lily and Gus Trenor team up to make some cash. Well, mostly Trenor does all the work, but Lily keeps the money. Lily takes advice from Trenor in what stocks to invest in, and starts making a good sum of money off of it. She begins paying off her debts and life is good. She hits a speed bump when she learns Gryce has pretty much been snatched up by Evie Van Osburgh, this because Bertha Dorset set them up together. Insult is added to injury when Mrs Van Osburgh tells Lily that "the engagement is not to be announced until next week--but...they both wished you to be the first to know of their happiness" (Wharton 79). Lily now despises Bertha, so we shall see were that one goes. Lily then goes to live with her aunt, Mrs Penniston for awhile in order to avoid wasting cash like she did while in Bellomont. While there Lily receives a visitor who has some letters Selden had written to various people. At first, Lily has no want for them, but upon further inspection she learns that the letters could be used for blackmail purposes. Lily buys the letters from the woman in order to protect Selden from defamation.
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