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There were also street encounters that summer with old Sharon Whipple, who called the boy Buck and jocularly asked him what he was doing to make a man of himself, and whom he would vote for at the next election.
Humiston was deeply enthralled by Bertha's odd speech, her beauty, her calm use of money, and lingered on day by day, spending nearly all his time at Moss's studio or at the hotel, seeking Mrs. Haney's company. He had never met her like, and confessed as much to Moss, who jocularly retorted: "That's saying a good deal for you've seen quite a few." Humiston ignored this thrust.
They have a mania for order, sheer order, order for the sake of order. They can't see how anything can come in any one's thought before order or how anything need come afterward. Even Sir Edward Grey jocularly ran me across our history with questions like this: "Suppose you have to intervene, what then?" "Make 'em vote and live by their decisions." "But suppose they will not so live?"
She inquired jocularly, appearing to find enjoyment in shocking him: "You've seen my hated rival, haven't you Lamb, the new M.D. that pulled in here the other day? His wife looks like a horse with a straw bonnet on and he ought to be jailed on sight if there's anything in Lombroso's theories. Have you noticed him?" Symes nodded. "He laid brick until he was thirty-five," she added nonchalantly.
He complains, indeed, jocularly in one place that too much kindness is not good for servants, as it leads them to presume upon the easy-going temperament of their master, but that is only a good- natured grumble on the perennial servant problem.
So it subsequently turned out. The "sea-pigs," as the Captain had at first jocularly termed them, bade good-bye to the steamer and its passengers when they had got a little way beyond No Man's fort, and were approaching shoal water, with an impudent flick of their flukey tails in the air as they went off, shaping a straight course out towards the Nab light-ship, as if bound up Channel.
It was at breakfast, the family for some reason or other most unusually all taking breakfast together. Rosalie's father first jocularly bantered Harold on his choice of colour, and everybody anxious as always to please and placate the owner of the world laughed with father against Harold. But Harold did not laugh.
It was the President's idea that the leaders of the Confederacy should be allowed to escape, much as he had already jocularly advised Grant to let Jeff Davis escape "all unbeknown to himself." He spoke plainly on the subject. "No one need expect me to take any part in hanging or killing these men, even the worst of them. Enough lives have been sacrificed."
Upon seating himself, he was jocularly questioned by one of the number, in reference to some young lady, who was evidently known to them all. "Ah, William, how did you find the lovely Clara this evening?" inquired his friend, in German.
"Yes," said Dig jocularly, already fumbling the ten-and-six in anticipation in his pocket. "Any muff can get round Arthur." It was an unlucky jest, if the baronet's object was to decide his friend in favour of the proposal. For Arthur coloured up and took his hand out of his pocket. "Wait till to-morrow," said he again. "Dig, you'll give your name now, won't you?" said Simson.
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