The late Lord Plimket, when Governor of Now Zealand, told a quaint story of his distinguished relative, the Protestant Archbishop of Dublin. The celebrated prelate bad a horror of paralysis. He sat, on one occasion next to a duchess at dinner, and to her surprise suddenly exclaimed : "Tt has come at last ! I have been pinching my knee for half a minute and have no feeling in it whatever.” And the duchess replied : “Pardon me, your Grace —MY knee!”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 1 September 1923, Page 7
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