Both Uses of
indulge
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Some authors, indeed, do far more than this, and indulge themselves in such confidential depths of revelation as could fittingly be addressed only and exclusively to the one heart and mind of perfect sympathy; as if the printed book, thrown at large on the wide world, were certain to find out the divided segment of the writer's own nature, and complete his circle of existence by bringing him into communion with it.†
p. 5.8indulge = enjoy to excess
- after those wild, free days on the Assabeth, indulging fantastic speculations, beside our fire of fallen boughs, with Ellery Channing;†
p. 25.5 *indulging = enjoying to excess
Definition:
to give in to a desire or allow someone to enjoy or experience something -- especially something pleasurable