egoist

Was she merely an egoist—it ran in the family—or did it conceal much that she had no intention of revealing?

Ada's a good child, as good as a born egoist can be, but—well—we are not all made on the same plan.

You are an egoist to create all this excitement; don't you know that the maids are out in the hall crying?

It is an awful thing when a poseur ceases to pose, when an egoist becomes a human being.

My sufferings, my repugnance, my feelings, all my egoism—for I know that I am an egoist—ought to be sacrificed to the family.