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But Marion answered, with that indifference grown nearly to a sneer: "Oh, no.... Oh, no...." Ellen leaned back, hating these adults that like to keep their secrets from the young.
Courtesy and politeness so often met me in my enquiries for employment that I often wished they would kick me out, and so vary the monotony of the sickly veneer of consideration that so thinly overlaid the indifference and the absolute unconcern they had to my need. A few cut up rough and said, No; we don't want you. We have no vacancy; and if we had, we have plenty of people on hand to fill it."
Had that been done, even to the hint of it, instead of the lordly indifference shown, Gower might have ventured on a suggestion, that the priceless woman he could call wife was fast slipping away from him and withering in her allegiance. He did allude to his personal sentiment.
Without wishing at all to diminish the merit of these enterprises, I may be permitted to say that their interest and importance were chiefly local, and to assert that neither their conception, direction, nor execution required a man called James Watt. In the early part of 1774, after contending with Watt's indifference, his friends put him into communication with Mr.
Still, you may as well explain. Jessie sipped her wine. 'It's only that they say she's engaged. 'To whom? 'A gentleman in London somebody in the family where she was teaching. 'How do you know that? he asked, with the same blending of indifference and annoyed persistency. 'Why, it's only a guess, after all.
"If you've come to tell me about this marriage, I've heard of it," he said, bluntly. "Murchison told me this afternoon." "He didn't tell you how it was brought about, I suppose?" said Hardy. The captain shook his head. "I didn't ask him," he said, with affected indifference, and sat gazing out at the window as Hardy began his narration.
Lake must have felt somewhat annoyed at this, but whether he did or not, he treated it with the greatest indifference, saying that he did not care, he would go to sea without his mate or the Kroomen either, and that he was determined not to pay the pilotage.
And yet I have not much hope of this, since all the attempts of my friends to obtain subscriptions for me in France and Russia have failed: because the French government takes no interest in what is done out of Paris; and in Russia such researches, having little direct utility, are looked upon with indifference.
His tone was one of scientific indifference; and the discussion of the next few minutes was all in favor of his scheme. It ended in a motion to resolve the commission into a ways and means committee for the purpose of common defense. "Second the motion!" cried the aggressive man; and the response was unanimous.
Later, sadness takes the place of fury, then indifference and scorn, later still, a calculating admiration for great villains who have been successful; but this is only when, of the two elements which constitute man, earth triumphs over spirit.
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