With them no introspective [greek]cnzhi seauton overexcites the consciousness of self.

But with us; as with those of old possessed of devils, it comes to startle and stays to distress.

Too apt is it to prove an ever-present, undesirable double.
Too often does it play the part of uninvited spectre at the feast, whose presence no one save its unfortunate victim suspects.

The haunting horror of his own identity is to natures far less eccentric than Kenelm Chillingly's only too common a curse.

To this companionship, paradoxical though it sound, is principally due the peculiar loneliness of childhood.