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Now everyone is bending over backwards to turn Cousin George around.

I’m predicting that Emily will fall out of love with this guy as soon as he’s around for a month.

Today I learned that Trollope has an entire category of novels called “Inheritance Novels.” And this is one of them

Old man, son and heir dies, daughter ought to marry a distant cousin to unite the title, the land, and the fortune.

Does this sound familiar? It’s because there are at least two Trollope novels with this plot.

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