In the canon
Cousin Phillis
- Form
- Form Novella
- Year
- Year 1864
- Pages
- Pages 120
A country minister breaks off from the hay to set his labourers right on their work and their Latin in the same breath, and that is the house Paul walks into: a farm where Virgil is quoted over the milk pans, and the daughter of the house, seventeen and taller than the men, still goes about in a child's pinafore. Paul brings his friend Holdsworth, a railway engineer with easy manners and news of a wider world, and soon Phillis is being taught Italian.
It is a great thing for a lad when he is first turned into the independence of lodgings.
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