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Show ! Tua duko of Portland, who has j given such magnificent donations for , tho rulk-f of tbe sick and wounded in the east, is a hypochondriac of seventy, with an income of 1750,000 a year. He suffers from a disfiguring ! malady, aod lives in seclusion, ; whether at Welbeck Abbey hit seat !in Nottinghamshire, tbe most famous ,of those places knowu as "tho duke.-ics." or in London. In the latter be inhabits a vast, gloomy mansion in Cavendish square. The duke cannot baor to be seen, and has erected at the back of bis house an immense screen ol iron and glass, which completely prevents his neigh-bore neigh-bore Irom gratifying their curioaity. I Hu was never married. |