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106 for I consider him a hero, and above all lords, ay, all princes." The following morning, Lady Anne really did summon a physician, feeling assured, that by no other medium she could allay the fears of the Count. In all cases, where neither acute pain nor violent fever was experienced, she considered medical assistance useless and ridiculous, a mere waste of money, for which she could find much more agreeable employment. When very young, she had been well acquainted with several women of rank, the friends of her mother, who occupied and doubtless amused themselves with being regular nervous invalids, under the surveillance of the then celebrated Dr. Warren, who reckoned them as a sure card for ten thousand a year. Lady Anne determined, even then, never to belong to the delicate and ailing. She did not blame them, for she considered it in the light of a leading fashion, suitable for great houses, and by no means incompatible with beauty and coquetry, having seen it answer in various cases, which, if she had written her projected book, it is probable she would have exhibited in good stile. She rejoiced that it was not the fashion of her day, and had probably rendered her daughters on the whole good service, by making them sensible from their babyhood, that to be poorly was to be naughty; and,