" Oh, Mr. Lydgate" ! said Mary, with an unmistakable lapse into indifference. " You want to know something about him, " she added, not choosing to indulge Rosamond's indirectness.
The man thought it might be Bill, but he thought about it without any interest. He had no curiosity. Feeling and emotion had left him. He was no longer able to feel pain.
The sailors or carriers whom he employs, may still belong indifferently either to his country, or to their country, or to some third country, in the same manner as if he had been a native.
To be sure, nearly all my schoolfellows either enjoyed the thing, or at all events went through it with indifference; they made friends with the sergeant, and some were proud of walking with him " out of bounds" .