In about half a minute he began to go round, looking at each boy's paper, either making corrections without a word, or saying simply " neat " or " not neat " or " done well," more as if he were a machine , than as if he expressed any opinion of his own, or gave any commendation in which he expected the boy to whom he spoke to take any pleasure.
He was aware that a few boys were really working, that most were pretending to work, and that some were neither working nor pretending to work.  In about half a minute he began to go round, looking at each boy's paper, either making corrections without a word, or saying simply " neat " or " not neat " or " done well," more as if he were a machine , than as if he expressed any opinion of his own, or gave any commendation in which he expected the boy to whom he spoke to take any pleasure.  When he came to the two boys who were ostentatiously doing nothing, and for whose benefit chiefly he was arranging his behaviour, he passed them by without any notice.