Lady Chiltern intended to imply that Miss Palliser was so much better educated than young ladies in general that she was able to express herself intelligibly in her own language.

She had been well educated, and would, no doubt, have done the _Times_ credit had the _Times_ chosen to employ her.
She was the youngest daughter of the youngest brother of the existing Duke of Omnium, and the first cousin, therefore, of Mr.Plantagenet Palliser, who was the eldest son of the second brother.

And as her mother had been a Bavilard there could be no better blood.

But Adelaide had been brought up so far away from the lofty Pallisers and lofty Bavilards as almost to have lost the flavour of her birth.

Her father and mother had died when she was an infant, and she had gone to the custody of a much older half-sister, Mrs.Atterbury, whose mother had been not a Bavilard, but a Brown.