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And this attitude of the world, encouraged though it was by its recipient, bred in him no desire for intimacy with any of his kind, but only a half-indifferent, lazily calculating, contempt.
"So you couldn't do it after all, Dan?" The familiar note of half-indifferent mockery sounded in her voice. Storran stared at her. "By God! I don't believe you are a woman!" he exclaimed thickly. She regarded him contemplatively, her hands lightly touching the red marks scored by his fingers on the whiteness of her throat. "Do you know," she replied dispassionately, "I sometimes wonder if I am?
Dinneford giving merely a half-constrained or half-indifferent consent. He had learned, by painful and sometimes humiliating experience, that any contest with Mrs. Helen Dinneford upon which he might enter was sure to end in his defeat. He was a man of fine moral and intellectual qualities.
She did the most generous, the most ample penance for it as she stood there talking to him of half-indifferent things, but with a magic, a significance of eye and voice which seemed to take all the severity from her beauty and make her womanhood itself.
Concluding his argument, he stopped and stood silent for a moment, looking around upon the throng of half-indifferent, half-friendly faces before him, with those deep-sunken weary eyes that always seemed full of unshed tears.
Each understood the other as referring to this point of Wednesday evening, but neither made a remark. They were silent for some time. When Rhoda at length spoke it was in a tone of half-indifferent curiosity. 'You are sure you haven't exaggerated Mr. Barfoot's failings? The reply was delayed for a moment. 'I was a little indiscreet to speak of him at all. But no, I didn't exaggerate.
At last Angus rose from her side, dignified and cold, his new, not his old self; the lover no more, but the quiet, half-indifferent husband. "I see we had better not talk of these things until you are more composed perhaps, indeed, not at all. What is past is past, and cannot be recalled." "Angus!" She looked up, frightened at his manner. She determined to conciliate him a little.
She looked at them with half-wondering, half-indifferent eyes then closed the case and gave it to Robin Clifford. "They are for your wife when you marry," she said "Please keep them." Mr. Bayliss coughed a cough of remonstrance. "Pardon me, my dear young lady, but Mr. Jocelyn was particularly anxious the pearls should be yours " She looked at him, gravely.
They drew near it and walked about it, but none of them ventured to peer within. Even half-indifferent sightseers dropped their voices as they told a newcomer: "You see that carriage over there? That's Mrs. Alexander. They haven't found him yet. She got off the train this morning. Horton met her. She heard it in Boston yesterday heard the newsboys crying it in the street."
August acted with his eyes open to all the perils from gamblers' pistols and gamblers' malice; and after he had started to interfere, the mud-clerk called him back, and said, in his half-indifferent way: "Looky here, Gus, don't be a blamed fool. That's a purty little game. That greeny's got to learn to let blacklegs alone, and he don't look like one that'll take advice.
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