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"You think it very clever, my distinguished friends, to discuss me before my face," commented the old picture-dealer indifferently. He fingered the bright-colored decorations on his breast, looking down at them with absent eyes. After a moment he added, "and to show your in-ti-mate knowledge of my character." Only its careful correctness betrayed the foreignness of his speech.
His sole concern was to find Humphrey. Not succeeding, he appealed to the innkeeper to know what was become of him. "Why, that I know not," replied the innkeeper, indifferently. "Most like he hath not yet returned from the fire." Impatiently old Bartlemy, forgetting that he was a woman, and nurse to a young lady of the better sort, sat down in the inn yard upon a bench.
Her sister asked several searching questions, but Fanny would not make known whether the friend was male or female. 'I shouldn't be much surprised, remarked the woman of business, indifferently, 'if you go and make a fool of yourself before long. That Mrs. Damerel is up to some game with you; any one could see it with half an eye. I suppose it isn't Lord that's going to Brussels?
"Danger?" repeated the count. "Yes; danger threatens you and some one else! Let us come farther into the park, that no one may by a possible chance overhear me." When they had reached a sheltered spot the lady again spoke: "Do you know anything about Colonel Barthelmy?" "I received the cards he left here when he called," indifferently replied Count Vavel.
I tried by the use of signal flags to get information of the situation to these troops, but my efforts failed, and the leading regiments seemed to approach the river indifferently prepared to meet the sudden attack that speedily followed, delivered as it was from the chosen position of the enemy.
When he did speak it was to ask: "Grant, how many wolves do you think there are in that pack?" Knowing where he was from, and suspecting that he thought I would over-estimate the number, I determined to show my acquaintance with the animal by putting the estimate below what possibly could be correct, and answered: "Oh, about twenty," very indifferently. He smiled and rode on.
"What do you hask for it?" asked the planter indifferently, designating the house by a wave of his whip. "Ask for w'at?" said Injin Charlie. "De house! What you ask for it?" "I don't believe," said Charlie. "What you would take for it!" cried the planter. "Wait for w'at?" "What you would take for the whole block?" "I don't want to sell him!" "I'll give you ten thousand dollah for it."
Those who have never seen the Morgue, may see it perfectly, by presenting to themselves on indifferently paved coach-house accessible from the street by a pair of folding-gates; on the left of the coach-house, occupying its width, any large London tailor's or linendraper's plate-glass window reaching to the ground; within the window, on two rows of inclined plane, what the coach-house has to show; hanging above, like irregular stalactites from the roof of a cave, a quantity of clothes the clothes of the dead and buried shows of the coach-house.
If any struggles are made against the encircling net during the slow, solemn process of drawing any efforts on the part of the captives to leap out into freedom, they are made, not by one kind in displeasure at being shut up with another, but by every kind indifferently in displeasure at being shut up at all.
"Hello, Hugh," she said indifferently, looking back over her shoulder; "have you turned up again?" "Still sticking to the same side of your horse, I see." he replied, ignoring the question. "I told you you'd get lop-sided." The deformity, if there were any, did not seem to trouble her. "I'm going to Florida Wednesday. We want another man. Think it over."
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