It certainly seemed so in this clergyman's case.
'Your prospect,' Mr.Wyvern remarked presently, 'will not be improved by the works below.' His voice was very deep, and all his words were weighed in the utterance.

This deliberation at times led to peculiarities of emphasis in single words.

Probably he was a man of philological crotchets; he said, for instance, 'pro-spect.' 'I scarcely think Mr.Eldon will go on with the mining,' replied Mrs.
Waltham.
'Ah! you think not ?' 'I am quite sure he said that unconsciously,' the lady remarked to herself.

'He's thinking of some quite different affair.' 'Mr.Eldon,' the clergyman resumed, fixing upon her an absent eye, 'is Mr.Mutimer's son-in-law, I understand ?' 'His brother, Mr.Godfrey Eldon, was.' Mrs.Waltham corrected.
'Ah! the one that died ?' He said it questioningly; then added-- 'I have a difficulty in mastering details of this kind.

You would do me a great kindness in explaining to me briefly of whom the family at the Manor at present consists ?' Mrs.Waltham was delighted to talk on such a subject.
'Only of Mrs.Eldon and her son, Mr.Hubert Eldon.