This lady took the children of Mr. Burney into her kindest favour, and invited their father to consult with her unreservedly upon his projects and wishes; and, through such honourable7 auspices8, scarcely ten days elapsed, ere Esther and Susan were placed under the care of Madame St. Mart, a woman of perfect goodness of heart, and of a disposition9 the most affectionate.
Madame St. Mart was accustomed to the charge of des jeunes Anglaises, two daughters of Sir Willoughby Aston, Selina and Belinda, being then under her roof.
Highly satisfied with this arrangement, Mr. Burney now visited the delightful10 capital of France; made himself acquainted with its antiquities11, curiosities, public buildings, public places, general laws, and peculiar12 customs; its politics, its resources, its festivities, its arts and its artists; as well as with the arbitrary tyrannies, and degrading oppressions towards the lower classes, which, at that epoch13, were, to an English looker-on, incomprehensibly combined, not with murmurs14 nor discontent, but with the most lively animal spirits, and the freshest glee of national gaiety.

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