“If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?”
“The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?”
“What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can old man, — you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind,– I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.”
“What Martha Stewart-like demon of a Stepford wife is possessing me?”
“If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.”
“All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better—So why do I hate my life?”