three o'clock
I never heard worse than he told us this morning . If what he preached is true religion , he 's a very inconsistent professor of it , and I would like to tell him so . `` What 's more , I will if I can find him '' ; and acting upon the impulse she left the room . The `` miserable sinners , '' as the prayer-book has it , whom Hemstead had in fact made quite miserable for a time , grew more comfortable after dinner ; and by three o'clock , so far from employing hair-cloth and scourgings , or even the mildest form of a crusade against the weaknesses of the flesh , were all dozing and digesting in the most luxurious manner . Lottie was the only `` sinner '' who remained `` miserable '' ; but she was not more `` out of sorts '' than the one who , ex officio , as the world is prone to believe , Ought to have been calm and serene upon his theological height above the clouds . As she entered the parlor with her velvet-like tread , she paused a moment to observe the Boanerges of the morning . As he sat alone before the fire , with his elbows upon his knees and his face buried in his hands , he looked more like a weak mortal than a `` son of thunder . ''