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WHEN a late Duchess of Bedford was last at Buxton, and then in her
eighty-fifth year, it was the medical farce of the day for the faculty
to resolve every complaint of whim and caprice into a shock of the
nervous system. Her grace, after inquiring of many of her friends in
the rooms what brought them there, and being generally answered for a
nervous complaint, was asked in her turn, What brought her to
Buxton?--I came only for pleasure, answered the healthy duchess;
for, thank God, I was born before nerves came into fashion.
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