[Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookPhineas Redux CHAPTER II 17/31
We've nothing else to interest anybody.
But nurse shall take him now. Come out and have a turn in the shrubbery before Oswald comes back. They're gone to-day as far as Trumpeton Wood, out of which no fox was ever known to break, and they won't be home till six." "Who are 'they' ?" asked Phineas, as he took his hat. "The 'they' is only Adelaide Palliser.
I don't think you ever knew her ?" "Never.
Is she anything to the other Pallisers ?" "She is everything to them all; niece and grand-niece, and first cousin and grand-daughter.
Her father was the fourth brother, and as she was one of six her share of the family wealth is small.
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