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One had to be very polite to large policemen. The politeness should, naturally, increase as the square of the policeman. "I wonder if you could tell me where my hotel is, officer?" Oliver began. "What hotel?" said the policeman uninterestedly. Oliver noticed with an inane distinctness that he had started to swirl his nightstick as a large blue cat might switch its tail.
Presently he seemed to recognize a turning to the right, and he pursued this for a time, now walking more slowly. A European woman, holding a half-caste baby in her arms, stood in an open doorway, watching him uninterestedly.
During a remarkable wet summer, Joe Vernon, whose vocal taste and humour contributed for many years to the entertainment of the frequenters of Vauxhall Gardens, but who was not quite so good a timist in money matters as in music, meeting an acquaintance who had the misfortune to hold some of his unhonoured paper, was asked by him, not uninterestedly, how the gardens were going on?
"I understood you wished me to report the progress of the wildly growing grass." "Cityeditor's province," he declared uninterestedly. "No such thing on the Intelligencer," Gootes informed me in a loud whisper.
These damned Mercutians are not invulnerable. They can be overcome, chased off the Earth. But we've got to be men, not slaves." High excitement shone in the surrounding faces. "But we ain't got no weapons," a small, weak-chinned man protested. The other spat carefully: "No weapons, huh? Man, I could show you " A dark, silent man standing uninterestedly next to him jabbed him in the ribs.
Warren looked for his paper-cutter, cut a page, and shrugged his shoulders without glancing up from his book. "Well, yes, I suppose it is. But of course she's gone steadily ahead." "But I thought she wasn't so successful last winter, Warren?" "I don't know," he said politely, wearily, uninterestedly. "How did you hear this, Warren?" his wife asked, with a deceitful air of innocence.
On Saturday night, as Paul was turning the corner, coming home from Keston, he saw his mother and father, who had come to Sethley Bridge Station. They were walking in silence in the dark, tired, straggling apart. The boy waited. "Mother!" he said, in the darkness. Mrs. Morel's small figure seemed not to observe. He spoke again. "Paul!" she said, uninterestedly.
The guns thundered continuously behind, and the narrow roads were filled, all the way, with hurrying teams, cavalry, cannon, and foot soldiers. I stopped, a while, by a white frame church, primly, squarely built, and read the inscriptions upon the tombs uninterestedly. Some of the soldiers had pried open the doors, and a wounded Zouave was delivering a mock sermon from the pulpit.
It has a large low-vaulted interior, with the carts and wagons of the muleteers at the right of the entrance, and beyond these the stalls of the mules where they stood chewing their provender, and glancing uninterestedly round at the intruders, for plainly we were not of the guests who frequent the place.
The bar-room of the blazing Poodle-Dog was thronged with men men standing before the long, sloppy bar, men seated around rough tables, and men lounging here and there in groups about the heavily sanded floor. Uninterestedly glancing at these, Winston paused for an idle moment, his eyes fastened upon a whirling spectacle of dancers in the hall beyond.
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