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It's my own creed, at any rate. Lovely Madonna, model at once and muse, I call you to witness that I too am an idealist!" "An idealist, then," I said, half jocosely, wishing to provoke him to further utterance, "is a gentleman who says to Nature in the person of a beautiful girl, 'Go to, you are all wrong! Your fine is coarse, your bright is dim, your grace is gaucherie.
But in these degenerate days, when the jeunesse dorée decorate their "dens" with Queen Anne furniture, Turkish rugs, and choice bric-à -brac, it has been jocosely said that "dining in hall is the only legal study of Temple students."
The family stock was Irish by residence and settlement, though Scotch in origin. The family name was half jocosely and half seriously believed to be the middle syllable of the famous clan of Macgregor. William Rathbone Greg's grandfather was a man of good position in the neighbourhood of Belfast, who sent two of his sons to push their fortunes in England.
After a very vigorous "double shuffle," as they were seated side by side on a bench intensely talking, for David Crockett was never at a loss for words, the mother came up, and, in her wonderfully frank mode of match-making, jocosely addressed him as her son-in-law. Even David's imperturbable self-possession was disturbed by this assailment.
Know then that certain very great merchants of Italy, being met, as merchants use, for divers reasons proper to each, at a hostelry in Paris, and having one evening jovially supped together, fell a talking of divers matters, and so, passing from one topic to another, they came at last to discuss the ladies whom they had left at home, and one jocosely said: "I cannot answer for my wife; but for myself I own, that, whenever a girl that is to my mind comes in my way, I give the go-by to the love that I bear my wife, and take my pleasure of the new-comer to the best of my power."
Toward morning he called Denison to "take the helm," as he jocosely termed it. Battle of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain.
And then she added: "He understands understands everything." The young man was on the point of saying jocosely: "And I don't is that it?" But these words, in time, changed themselves to others slightly less trivial: "Do you suppose he understands his wife?" Miss Fancourt made no direct answer, but after a moment's hesitation put it: "Isn't she charming?" "Not in the least!" "Here he comes.
I was never more mistaken in my life. I was about to go regularly through my patients when the old gentleman began to speak. "I called, doctor," said he, "to explain the little matter about which I about which I " "Troubled your spirits yesterday," added the youth, jocosely, pulling his mustache. "Beg pardon," I returned; "had we not better talk this over in private?
But I counted twenty-three gentlemen in wigs who said they were "in it," and none of them appeared to understand it much better than I. They chatted about it with the Lord Chancellor, and contradicted and explained among themselves, and some of them said it was this way, and some of them said it was that way, and some of them jocosely proposed to read huge volumes of affidavits, and there was more buzzing and laughing, and everybody concerned was in a state of idle entertainment, and nothing could be made of it by anybody.
The ladies waited, with an exchange of glances, for her reply, as if they had talked the matter over beforehand, and had agreed to find out just how Annie Kilburn felt about it. "Oh, I guess he paid his board," said Mrs. Wilmington, jocosely rejecting the implication that he had been the guest of the Boltons.
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