Excerpt from Miriam Sedley, or the Tares and the Wheat, Vol. 2 of 3: A Tale of Real Life

On our return home, Mademoiselle inquired if my uncle was out, and hearing that he was in the library with Belzoni, she gave us leave to go to him, and I was to say that she was tres contente de moi, neither more, nor less, and that he would know what that meant. Accordingly I ran in, singing my own praises, and, like most persons who do so, was taken at my own valuation, for who can know our merits half so well as ourselves, and if we don't proclaim them, how can we expect the world to take the trouble of finding them out? Reputation is the only trumpet that heralds worth, or talent, and unless we blow the key note, others seldom sound it for us.

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