I should, after that deprivation, have slipped back, I suppose, to my old life of hopeless uninterest and insignificance, but now here the death of Marie Ivanovna has been no check at all.
"The Dark Forest"
Hugh Walpole
So too did they enter Mr. Ridding's mind; and they only remained outside Mrs. Ridding's because of her profound uninterest.
"Christopher and Columbus"
Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim