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Left alone in the silent house, Robert de Ligny relit the lamp. Serious and even somewhat solemn voices were beginning to speak within him. Moulded from childhood by the rules of moral responsibility, he now experienced a sensation of painful regret, akin1 to remorse2. Reflecting that he had caused the death of this man, albeit3 without intending it or knowing it, he did not feel wholly innocent. Shreds4 of his philosophic5 and religious training came back to him, disturbing his conscience. The phrases of moralists and preachers, learned at school, which had sunk to the very depths of his memory, suddenly rose in his mind. Its inward voices repeated them to him. They said, quoting some old religious orator6: "When we abandon ourselves to irregularities of conduct, even to those regarded as least culpable7 in the opinion of the world, we render ourselves liable to commit the most reprehensible8 actions. We perceive, from the most frightful9 examples, that voluptuousness10 leads to crime."
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These maxims11, upon which he had never reflected, suddenly assumed for him a precise and austere12 meaning. He thought the matter over seriously. But since his mind was not deeply religious, and since he was
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