"Your way of speaking shocks me. It is blasphemous. I cannot help it, if that is my first feeling. It might not be so, I dare say, if I understood the kind of feeling you describe. I do not want to vex you; and besides, we must speak gently, for mamma is asleep; but your whole manner offends me--"
"How!" exclaimed he. "Offends you! I am indeed most unfortunate."

'Your way of speaking shocks me. It is blasphemous. I cannot help it, if that is my first feeling. It might not be so, I dare say, if I understood the kind of feeling you describe. I do not want to vex you; and we must speak gently, for mamma is asleep; but your whole manner offends me-'
'How!' exclaimed he. 'Offends you!'
