Yet such persons seem capable of going through a long life without once feeling the impulse to worship, to render thanks and praise to the Supreme Being.

I suppose they very early deaden their spiritual faculties; perhaps by loose habits of life, or by the indulgence of excessive self-esteem, or by----" Jerome made a quick gesture with his hands, as if defending himself against a blow; then he turned to his wife, and regarded her fixedly.
"Will it take you much longer," he asked, with obvious struggle for self-command, but speaking courteously, "to exhaust this theme ?" "It annoys you ?" said the lady, very coldly, straightening herself to an offended attitude.
"I confess it does.

Or rather, it worries me.

If I may beg----" "I understood you to invite me to your room." "I did.

And the fact of my having done so ought, I should think, to have withheld you from assailing me with your acrid tedium." "Thank you," said Mrs.Otway, as she rose to her full height.