<u>All his years of painstaking and often frustrating attempts at deciphering had been rewarded</u>. "I am going to do it," he had said as a boy when the mathematician Fourier showed him a copy of the Rosetta Stone.<u> Now he had succeeded.</u>
These 2 underlined details show us how hard he worked, and in which he then suceeded years later. The last sentence shows his accomplishment which is a sense of pride.