“I sometimes think you despise poetry,' said Phineas. 'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to know when it is false and when it is true.”
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Phineas, a young Irish barrister, catches the eye of Lord Tulla and is elected to Parliament for the family seat of Loughshane. In London, he wins friends on all sides and is admitted to high society, where he falls in love with Lady Laura Standish. But Lady Laura must marry another.
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Anthony Trollope
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