Dashwood could spare them perfectly well; and Elinor, who now understood her sister, and saw to what
indifference to almost every thing else she was carried by her eagerness to be with Willoughby again, made no farther direct opposition to the plan, and merely referred it to her mother's decision, from whom however she scarcely expected to receive any support in her endeavour to prevent a visit, which she could not approve of for Marianne, and which on her own account she had particular reasons to avoid.
He was quite good-tempered, a little amused, but his
indifference was obvious.
Her manner towards me had been altered ever since I had begun to treat her with hardness and
indifference: she almost cringed to me on every occasion; she consulted my countenance incessantly, and beset me with innumerable little officious attentions.
"Absolute
indifference," he declared promptly, "unless--"
The tone of
indifference in which he expressed his gratitude piqued Francine.
"It is of no consequence," I said, accompanying the words with a gesture of the most utter
indifference; "give me the grand total, please."
There was a vacancy in the looks of Charlotte, during the scientific execution of the different individuals who had been labouring at the several instruments in the course of the evening, that denoted a total
indifference to the display.
I can't wait here any longer." He walked out of the room, having deliberately returned the contemptuous
indifference of Hardyman by a similar
indifference on his own side, at parting.
The former of these teaching the folly and vanity of it, and the latter correcting it as unlawful, and at the same time assuaging it, by raising future hopes and assurances, which enable a strong and religious mind to take leave of a friend, on his deathbed, with little less
indifference than if he was preparing for a long journey; and, indeed, with little less hope of seeing him again.
Aramis darted a look at Porthos, as if to ask if all this were true, if some snare were not concealed beneath this outward
indifference. But soon, as if ashamed of having consulted this poor auxiliary, he collected all his forces for a fresh assault and new defense.
A little extra paleness, a little tension of the nostril when he spoke, and the voice pitched in rather a higher key, that to strangers would seem expressive of cold
indifference, were all the signs Philip usually gave of an inward drama that was not without its fierceness.
"You save yourself something--I don't know what--but there is some selfish motive, and in sparing yourself you never consider for a moment what I think, or how I feel your neglect and
indifference. I suppose this is what you would call unwomanly; but I have got into a habit of expressing myself.
