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should recommend rather more of it to you than I suspect you are in the habit of taking."—"Oh! I am, very fond of exercise myself—he replied—& mean to walk a great deal while I am here, if the Weather is temperate. I shall be out every morning before breakfast—& take several turns upon the Terrace, & you will often see me at Trafalgar House."—"But you do not call a walk to Traf: H. much exercise?—" "Not, as to mere distance, but the Hill is so steep!—Walking up that Hill, in the middle of the day, would throw me into such a Perspiration!—You would see me all in a Bath by the time I got there!—I am very subject to Perspiration, and there cannot be a surer sign of Nervousness.—" They were now advancing so deep in Physics, that Charlotte veiwed

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