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'I shouldn't mind that; we get on very well. She will be here next week, you know. You must come to tea and meet her. 'Well, I don't know. I don't think that I'm particularly eager to meet her, Gerald confessed jocosely.
He had said something to himself jocosely about lovers' perjuries, the remembrance of which was now very bitter to him. He took up a sheet of note-paper and scrawled an excuse to Madame Goesler. News from the country, he said, made it impossible that he should go out to-night. But he did not send the note.
Phil presented himself in good season the next morning at the store in Franklin Street. As he came up in one direction the youth whom he had seen in the store the previous day came up in the opposite direction. The latter was evidently surprised. "Halloo, Johnny!" said he. "What's brought you here again?" "Business," answered Phil. "Going to buy out the firm?" inquired the youth jocosely.
"And have you any bad boys that frighten little girls in your school?" he asked, jocosely. "I don't know as I have," she said, with a consciousness that flamed into her cheeks. "Perhaps the boys have reformed?" Westover suggested.
"Not that I wish it to be so, but if such should prove to be the case, there'll be one delighted grizzly bear out in these same mountains the chap Bluff calculated on carving with that big sticker," remarked Jerry jocosely. But Bluff would not even smile. Truth to tell, he was counting the hours until he could open that trunk and relieve his distressed mind.
The wounded man, without betraying any concern, excited the laughter of the company, by jocosely putting his arms akimbo, and inserting his thumbs into the orifices of the wounds, as if they had been arm-holes. This having in a measure restored good-humor, the party joined hands and formed a circle preparatory to dancing.
Judge Babson paused momentarily in his flight. "Oh! Perhaps you might as well let the whole thing go," he answered carelessly. "On the whole I think it better that you should." As they fought their way out of the doorway Charley Still, of the Sun, grinned at "Deacon" Terry, of the Tribune, and jocosely inquired: "Say, Deac., did you ever think why one calls a judge 'Your Honor'?"
"We're late, boy." "I shall talk afterwards," she warned them. "At dinner to-night Mr. Manders, I can't get Eric to see what bad plays he writes and what good plays he might turn out. He's very funny about it." "Authors are a rum lot!" said Manders jocosely, slapping Eric's shoulder. "See about a taxi, boy. I don't let my people keep me waiting and I don't want them to wait for me."
If I were a marrying man I should choose Miss Vincy before either of them." "Well, make up, make up," said Mr. Standish, jocosely; "you see the middle-aged fellows early the day." Mr. Chichely shook his head with much meaning: he was not going to incur the certainty of being accepted by the woman he would choose. The Miss Vincy who had the honor of being Mr.
During the whole movement from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, the Confederate commander was in excellent spirits. When at Hanover Junction he spoke of the situation almost jocosely, and said to the venerable Dr. Gwathmey, speaking of General Grant, "If I can get one more pull at him, I will defeat him."
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