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In the condition of boyish self-inquisition in which I then found myself, this acquaintance was a fresh element of fermentation, and the strongest to which my self-examination had hitherto been subjected. I instinctively desired to engage her fancy; but my attitude was from myself through her to myself.
For the first time in my life I was driven to look into myself. I took a retrospect of my past conduct a confused and imperfect one indeed. This review aggravated my distress. Still I pursued my distracting self-inquisition. Not for millions would I pass such another night! "'I had done as wrong things before, but they had never been thus brought home to me.
These are motives enough to satisfy the most inquisitive mind, I should think." Marcus said this with an attempt at a light laugh. But there was one motive not yet confessed a motive which could hardly be called a motive, for it lay dim and half-formed within his brain. He had never, in his moments of self-inquisition, acknowledged its existence to himself.
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