All 3 Uses of
conscience
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- But when I came to think the matter over my conscience reproached me bitterly for having on any pretext allowed him to go out of my sight.†
Chpt 9conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- Still, I could see no better course than to observe him from the hill, and to clear my conscience by confessing to him afterwards what I had done.†
Chpt 9
- I left Sir Henry behind, therefore, not without some prickings of conscience, and drove off upon my new quest.†
Chpt 11 *
Definition:
feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior