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This was especially true of Edith, who tried to satisfy her conscience, as we have seen, by bringing costly presents and delicacies that were seldom needed or appreciated.
I speak rather of such individuals, who, while betraying a marked religious fervour, showing itself in assiduous attention at church services, proselytising, and religious propaganda generally, manifest on the other hand little or no delicacy or sensitiveness of conscience on purely ethical matters.
The squalid inn was almost deserted, for the overnight lodgers had departed with their carts and pack-animals before dawn, so that I had not to face the individual whom I had so unceremoniously dispossessed of his bed, although I left a dollar for him with the innkeeper, knowing full well it would never reach him, but choosing thus to ease a somewhat guilty conscience.
Besides, she could sometimes also silence the reproaches of conscience, so as to seize for the public use the bequests of the pious for religious purposes, and to confiscate the revenues of rich monasteries apparently without any compunction.
This mere boy and girl had baffled the authority of a king! Anon, his anger cooled his countenance cleared. Smoothing the paper out he read its contents again, then smiled. "Well! Humphry has something of me in him after all!" he said. "He is not entirely his mother! He has a heart, a will, and a conscience, all three generally lacking to sons of kings! Let me be honest with myself!
Neither you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most dangerous men in England a ruined gambler, an absolutely desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece knew nothing of such men.
At that date they had apparently no doubt whatever as to the guilty party. The change of front in the Reichstag on August 4th would seem in the light of this proclamation, as nothing other than a betrayal of conscience. Further, the split which has arisen in their ranks during the war leads to the supposition that Liebknecht, Kautsky and Bernstein have been troubled by the inward voice.
But if, on the whole, I can satisfy my conscience in repeating the Creeds and reading the service, as other honest men are doing if I am convinced that I have an obvious work to do in that Church, it would be cowardly for me to abandon that work." Her eyes lighted up.
'Prithee, she added, 'do not read it till I am gone. 'That may hardly be, returned Richard, almost sullenly. 'Upon this paper it may depend whether thou go at all. 'Believe me, Richard, it hath no importance, she said, and her blushes deepened. 'I would thou wouldst believe me. But as she said it, her conscience smote her.
It was with her as the pearl-stringer had said of herself: she "did not know she could only feel" that the good little woman had something on her conscience, something that she was obliged to hide. Clo had by this time succeeded in clearing her mind from cobwebs. Suddenly a light shone like flame upon the mystery. "Peterson!" was the name that printed itself upon the girl's brain.
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