My conscience had turned itself into a regular alarm clock and was making all kinds of trouble.Narrator
You are going on a great deal better than usual. I am almost encouraged to try you again.Conscience
We are always made welcome when we go there; when one enters, it is like stepping from the garish light of the world into the soft and holy twilight of the next.Narrator
We never insult them, for they have a thousand virtues, and besides we owe them a heavy debt of gratitude.Narrator
What is a gentleman, anyway? A speculator in stocks? A highwayman? A bank burglar? A horse thief? A legislator? A manufacturer?Narrator
What is conscience? I think it is only this--a thought.Narrator
And thoughts are simply spiritualized electricity--our immortal soul is electricity, perhaps?Narrator
Why, persons even die occasionally! It beats all how a thing like that can happen, in this humane age, and in a land which is in a blaze of civilization.Narrator
You're always against me, and it ain't fair. You don't ever balance up matters and show that I do right sometimes.Narrator
It simply looked like a dead person; a peculiarity it would not have occurred to me to observe if death were a commoner phenomenon than it is.Narrator