Note 20 — SKETCHES OF FANNY KEMBLE IN JULIET.

(return) I recollect being present when some one was repeating to her a very high-flown and enthusiastic eulogy, of which she was the subject. She listened very quietly, and then said with indescribable naiveté—"Perhaps I ought to blush to have all these things thus repeated to my face; but the truth is, I cannot. I cannot, by any effort of my own imagination, see myself as people speak of me. It gives no reflection back to my mind. I cannot fancy myself like this. All I can clearly understand is, that you and every body are very much pleased, and I am very glad of it!"