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The ledger clerk, too, went back to work, and the cashier said off-handedly: "It is not near the station perhaps yes!" as if the station were a few hundred miles off, instead of a few hundred yards. He finished rapidly counting his bundle of notes and handed them to the officer. When the two emerged from the bank they found the street a good deal quieter than when they had entered it.
Bob was introduced to them off-handedly one morning by the doctor, and though both old ladies started at his name, they said nothing. After the physician's car had gone, Miss Hope came out on to the back porch where Betty was peeling potatoes and Bob mending a loose floor-board. "My sister and I " stammered Miss Hope, "we were wondering if you were a neighbor's boy.
I'm a market grower, my young shaver, and can't trade your fashion." "I did not know, sir," I said, trying to look and speak with dignity, for it was very unpleasant to be addressed so off-handedly by this man, just as if I had been asking him a favour.
He was attempting to deceive her concerning Glen, and perhaps his entire story was a fabrication. "Oh," she said. "Then you have purchased the mine you and Glen?" "Well a few minor details remain to be concluded," he said off-handedly. "We are not yet in actual possession of the property. There will be no further hitches, however and the claim is certainly rich."
Mallalieu are in no need of a bit of money, Mr. Cotherstone," he said quietly. "Business seems to be good with you, sir." "Oh, so-so," replied Cotherstone, off-handedly. "Naught to complain of, of course. I'll give you a receipt, Mr. Kitely," he went on, seating himself at his desk and taking up a book of forms. "Let's see twenty-five pounds a year is six pound five a quarter there you are, sir.
Hers was an idiotic sort of attachment, full of admiration for him, of voluptuousness for her, a beatitude that benumbed her; her soul sank into this drunkenness, shrivelled up, drowned in it, like Clarence in his butt of Malmsey. *Off-handedly. By the mere effect of her love Madame Bovary's manners changed.
But they went zip! like that! Never saw 'em no more, and nothin' come of it.... Best to keep your mouth shut, mate. In this 'ere place, any'ow." "Oh," said Cleek off-handedly, "I'm not one to blab. You needn't be afraid o' that. By the way, who's the chap with the black mustache a-stragglin' all over 'is fyce? An' the narsty eye? Saw 'im with Borkins, the man wot engaged me night before last."
What did you say?" asked Ellen, trying to speak naturally and off-handedly, and failing completely. She could not meet Rosemary's eyes. She looked down at St. George's sleek back and felt horribly afraid. Rosemary had either said she would or she wouldn't.
"I am interested in navigation, to the slight extent possible to a mere yachtsman: may I join you?" interposed Christobal. "Oh, yes," said the captain off-handedly. Elsie repressed the smile on her lips. Did the worthy doctor fear developments if this harmless map-making progressed in his absence?
"I saw some of it," I said off-handedly, as if it were no affair of mine, "and it looked to me like the sort of thing a mathematician would see if he ever got the willies." "You have a most expressive way of putting things, Carstairs," he said with a smile. There was more than humor in that smile; there was something in it that looked remarkably like relief.
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