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In part by jocose inquiries addressed to the expectant groom, in part by the confidences of the postmaster at the corners concerning the bulk and frequency of the correspondence passing between Theron and the now remote Alice they had followed the progress of the courtship through the autumn and winter with friendly zest.
At Court, she knew as well as any lady in the circle, the precise tone, moral, political, learned, or jocose, in which it was proper to answer the monarch, according to his prevailing humour; and was supposed to have been very active, by her personal interest, in procuring her husband a high situation, which the gouty old viscount could never have deserved by any merit of his own commonplace conduct and understanding.
Paul Overt was all delight at this kindness; nevertheless he mentioned in weak jocose qualification the bare fact that he had promised to go to another place which was at a considerable distance. "Well then you'll break your promise, that's all. You quite awful humbug!" St. George added in a tone that confirmed our young man's ease. "Certainly I'll break it but it was a real promise."
I assumed a jocose air with her, and at times Captain James considered it his duty to interfere and check me.
"Have you ever seen the moon?" a professor asked one of his pupils ironically. "No, sir," answered the pupil more ironically still, "but I have heard it spoken of." In one sense the jocose answer of the pupil might have been made by the immense majority of sublunary beings. How many people there are who have heard the moon spoken of and have never seen it at least through a telescope!
The eyebrow flourished over the jocose idea; the stony eye glittered a moment like a revolving light, and then relapsed into darkness. "However, I have but one, and I think I can make her comfortable." "Yes, my boy, quite comfortable. Let me see, I owe you ten thousand. How does the new account stand?" "Here are the figures, taken from Tonsor's book," said Fletcher.
But she was at some distance from the door; a long way from Mrs. Kirkpatrick, to whom she felt herself to belong more than to any one else. Far, too, from Lady Cuxhaven, and the terrible Lady Cumnor, and her jocose and good-natured lord. So Molly sate on, turning over pictures which she did not see; her heart growing heavier and heavier in the desolation of all this grandeur.
Sir Dugald looked up from his huge slice of broiled venison, clumsily jocose after his customary agreeable manner. "What's that, Leonora?" he said. "Going to see the stern vestal, are you? Priscilla, eh?" Lady Throckmorton shrugged her shoulders in an indifferent sarcasm. She was often both sarcastic and indifferent in her manner toward Sir Dugald.
A restriction should, however, be made in favor of the jocose lie; it ceases to be a lie when the mind of the speaker is open to all who listen and his narration or statement may be likened to those fables and myths and fairy tales in which is exemplified the charm of figurative language.
Lord Chiltern professed to disbelieve even in the wisdom of the House of Lords, and on one occasion asserted that it must be a great comfort to any Prime Minister to have three or four old women in the Cabinet. The father, when he heard this, tried to rebuke his son tenderly, strove even to be jocose. It was the one wish of his heart that Violet Effingham should be his daughter-in-law.
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