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The following text is from Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd. Bathsheba and Liddy are traveling down a road when Liddy points out a neighbor whom Bathsheba hasn't met yet.
Liddy looked. "That! That's Farmer Boldwood-of course 'tis-the man you couldn't see the other day when he called."
"Oh, Farmer Boldwood," murmured Bathsheba, and looked at him as he outstripped them. The farmer had never turned his head once, but with eyes fixed on the most advanced point along the road, passed as unconsciously and abstractedly as if Bathsheba and her charms were thin air.
Liddy looked. "That! That's Farmer Boldwood-of course 'tis-the man you couldn't see the other day when he called."
"Oh, Farmer Boldwood," murmured Bathsheba, and looked at him as he outstripped them. The farmer had never turned his head once, but with eyes fixed on the most advanced point along the road, passed as unconsciously and abstractedly as if Bathsheba and her charms were thin air.