intense

"Diabolism? Oh, yes? Really?" said I, with that vague discomfort and that intense desire to be polite which one feels when a man speaks of his own religion. 🔊

"I am a gentleman, and," he said with intense emphasis, "I thought I was in the company of gentlement." 🔊

Soames repeated those last three words in a tone of intense scorn. 🔊

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