Es gab in seiner Vergangenheit, wie in der eines jeden Menschen, schlechte Handlungen, deren er sich bewußt war und um derentwillen sein Gewissen ihn hätte quälen sollen; aber die Erinnerung an diese schlechten Handlungen quälte ihn lange nicht so wie manche nichtigen, aber beschämenden Erinnerungen.
There had been in his past, as in that of every man, actions which he realized were bad, and for which his conscience ought to have tormented him: but the recollections of those bad actions did not torment him nearly as much as these trivial yet shameful memories.