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"Why do you think that?" asked Mrs. Shiffney, in an uninterested voice. Her brilliant eyes looked extraordinary, like some strange exotic bird's eyes, through her veil. "Because he began his search with England," said Madame Sennier. "Well, really Henriette!" observed Mrs. Shiffney, with a faint laugh. "Ought I to apologize?" said Madame Sennier, turning to Charmian.
Bernenstein rose and went out. He was gone about half an hour, being employed in despatching the telegrams to Strelsau. Rudolf and Sapt used the interval to explain to Rischenheim what they proposed to do with him. They asked no pledge, and he offered none. He heard what they said with a dulled uninterested air. When asked if he would go without resistance, he laughed a bitter laugh.
But of course it was the stream with its glancing lights, its living change and motion, its murmuring, varying voice that was the chief attraction; and he wandered on by the side of it, noting here and there the long, rippling shallows where the sun struck golden on the sand beneath, watching the oily swirls of the deep black-brown pools as if at any moment he expected to see a salmon leap into the air, and not even uninterested in the calm eddies on the other side, where the smooth water mirrored the yellow-green bank and the bushes and the overhanging birch-trees.
But Susan only knew him as a man, twenty-five now, a wonderful and fascinating person to watch, even, in happy moments, to dream about. "You know I met him, Thorny," she said now, eager and smiling. "'S'at so?" Miss Thornton said, politely uninterested. "Yes, old Baxter introduced me, on a car. But, Thorny, he can't be coming right down here into this rotten place!" protested Susan.
Personally, being neither one nor the other, I remain uninterested in the modern novel." "Real life," said Portlaw, spearing a fish-ball, "is damn monotonous. The only gun-play is in the morning papers."
It was at first the duchess's intention, notwithstanding the unquiet movements that were taking place in the capital, to journey through Paris, for the very purpose of proving, by her quiet and uninterested demeanor, that she had no share whatever in these movements and riots.
Bonds, mortgages, post-obits, promissory notes in fact, every imaginable species of invention for raising the O'Malley exchequer for the preceding thirty years were handed about on all sides, suggesting to the mind of an uninterested observer the notion that had the aforesaid O'Malley been an independent and absolute monarch, instead of merely being the member for Galway, the kingdom over whose destinies he had been called to preside would have suffered not a little from a depreciated currency and an extravagant issue of paper.
With little hard lines around the mouth and common conventional habits of thought, full of subservience to his official superiors, and perfectly uninterested in him except as the source of supplies. But I don't know why I should WANT her to be so disagreeable. As a matter of fact, Mrs.
Avatea, who during the whole of the foregoing scene had stood leaning against the tree perfectly passive, and seemingly quite uninterested in all that was going on, replied by a single rapid glance of her dark eye, which was instantly cast down again on the ground at her feet.
He was not naughty, merely apathetic, uninterested, and consequently uninteresting. Meg thought he might be homesick and sad about Ayah, and was very kind and gentle, but her advances met with no response. By this time Tony was sure of his aunt, but he had by no means made up his mind about Meg.
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