# Endnotes explained — Memoirs of a Midget

> Chapter companion for Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare.

## What happens

The narrator reflects on the motto presented to Mrs. Monnerie, acknowledging it is not the true family motto, which was deemed too satirical. The substitute motto, though perhaps overweening, is offered with both hope and misgiving.

## Themes in this chapter

### Deception and Self-Deception

The narrator presents a substitute motto, withholding the real one as too satirical, and expresses both hope and misgiving about its truth.

## Character check-ins

### Unknown (Narrator)

The narrator comments on the motto shared with Mrs. Monnerie.

### Mrs. Monnerie

The recipient of the narrator's substitute motto.

## Key lines

> To be truthful, this is not my family motto ( nor crest); but the real motto seemed a little too satirical to share with Mrs. Monnerie; and however overweening its substitute may appear, I have now hopes, and now misgivings, that it is true.

Honestly, that is not my real family motto or crest; the actual one seemed too mocking to tell Mrs. Monnerie. Though the replacement may seem arrogant, I sometimes believe it and sometimes doubt it.

_The narrator explains the substitution of the family motto and the ambivalence toward its truth._

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