suggested to him by his miserable mother or aunt....

M. de Narbonne has been quite ill with the grief of this last
enormity: and M. d'Arblay is now indisposed. This latter is one
of the most delightful characters I have ever met, for openness,
probity, intellectual knowledge, and unhackneyed manners.


(Madame de Stael to Fanny BUrney.(67))
Written from juniper Hall, Dorking, Surrey, 1793.
When I learned to read English I begun by milton, to know all or
renounce at all in once. I follow the same system in writing my
first English letter to Miss burney; after such an enterprize
nothing can affright me. I feel for her so tender a friendship
that it melts my admiration, inspires my heart with hope of her
indulgence, and impresses me with the idea that in a tongue even
unknown I could express sentiments so deeply felt.

my servant will return for a french answer. I intreat miss
burney to correct the words but to preserve the sense of that
card.

best compliments to my dear protectress, Madame Phillipe.


(Madame de Stael to Fanny Burney.)
Your card in french, my dear, has already something of Your grace
in writing English : it is cecilia translated. my !. '

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