self-analysts

Updated: June 1, 2025

In the silence which followed she looked him in the face, and scornfully passed him and went out into the kitchen. He did not return at supper. Young people of this sort are not self-analysts, and Maud did not examine closely into causes. She was astonished to find herself more indignant than grieved. She broke into an angry wail as she went to her mother's bosom: "Mother! mother!"

Hamlin Garland - Wayside Courtships

In the silence which followed she scornfully passed him and went out into the kitchen. Brann went out and did not return at supper. Young people of this sort are not self-analysts, and Maud did not examine closely into causes. She was astonished to find herself more indignant than grieved. She broke into an angry wail as she went to her mother's bosom: "Mother! mother!"

Hamlin Garland - Other Main-Travelled Roads

Some men are born self-analysts, and are able to dissect their feelings by some peculiar form of mental surgery which finally leads them to cut out tenderness as though it were a cancer, love as a disease, and romantic aspirations as mere uncomfortable growths injurious to self-interest, but Gervase was not one of these.

Marie Corelli - Ziska