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Poodle Byng, who carried down to 1871 the social conditions of the eighteenth century, declared that nothing could be duller than Devonshire House in his youth.
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It was a great honour to go there, but I was bored to death. The Duchess was usually stitching in one corner of the room, and Charles Fox snoring in another. Under the splendid but arbitrary rule of the sixth Duke no one stitched or snored. Everyone who entered his saloons was well-born or beautiful or clever or famous, and many of the guests combined all four characteristics. When Prince Louis Napoleon, afterwards Napoleon III., first came to live in London, his uncle Jerome asked the Duke of Devonshire to invite his _mauvais sujet_ of a nephew to Devonshire House,