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Rh world. My guardian I found was a merchant, generally resident at Marseilles, and whose intention it was to send me to England when he could find any respectable persons willing to take the charge. He was more kind in manner the longer I lived with him, but he neither would answer a question respecting my parents or others; he was a good man, I cannot doubt, but he was a mistaken one, as I was an intelligent girl, two or three years forwarder than those of my age in England, and it would have been better that I should have been made acquainted with the misfortunes attendant on my birth, than be left as I was to feel their crushing influence when it fell with unmerciful severity. "I was at length sent with a servant to Geneva, where I found an English family, relations of Mr. Barrow, who received me politely, though coldly, and first taught me to perceive the peculiarity of English manners. I have no doubt they considered themselves extremely condescending to admit my company, but my musical talents subdued their pride, or thawed the frost of their hearts, for they appeared to grow every day a little kinder. They were staying in an hotel where there were several English families, and it was usual for them to make parties to view the wonderful objects of sublimity or beauty in that singular country, and which so entirely awoke my enthusiastic imagination as to