This fateful shadow pursued him to the end, often giving us, as it were, the very justificative ground for his own father's despondency and gloom, which the son rather too decisively reproved, while he might have sympathised with it in a stranger, and in that most characteristic letter to his mother, which we have quoted, said that it made his father often seem, to him, to be ungrateful-"Has the man no gratitude?"
"Robert Louis Stevenson a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial"
Alexander H. Japp
Unconsciously insincere, like the majority of people in their justificative confessions, Balzac often allowed his heart to intrude where it had no business to be present.
"Balzac"
Frederick Lawton
Meantime, a document-he should at once prepare a justificative document.
"Romance"
Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer