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'Oh yes we all take an interest in that. 'That young man, I suppose, particularly. 'That young man? 'The handsome one, who sits there. Didn't you tell me he is Mrs. Nettlepoint's son? 'Oh yes; he acts as her deputy. No doubt he does all he can to carry out her function. Mrs. Peck was silent a moment. I had spoken jocosely, but she received my pleasantry with a serious face.
They had had between them often in talk the refrain, jocosely, descriptively applied, of "old Roman." It had been, as a pleasantry, in the other time, his explanation to her of everything; but nothing, truly, had even seemed so old-Roman as the shrug in which he now indulged. "Why in the world not?" "The occasion. This ramble that we shall have had together and that we're not to speak of."
And Wes received her gayly. His repairs were done, his team in harness, ready to start. "It's a shame," he said. "We ought to go off down to town and play round and have a big time, but I'm so behind with my disking, Annie, honey. You see I had to stay over a day in Baltimore. Fact. Important business." He winked at her jocosely. "So I've got to work rest of the day.
Was the guest conscious of and did he acknowledge these marks of hospitality? His attention was directed to them by his host jocosely, and he accepted them seriously as they drank in jocoserious silence Epps's massproduct, the creature cocoa.
"What does it mean, Arend?" jocosely inquired Hendrik. "Has this brute been pursuing you for the last twelve hours?" "Yes." "And how much longer do you think the chase would have continued?" "About ten seconds," replied Arend, speaking in a very positive tone. "Very well," said Hendrik, who was so rejoiced at the deliverance of his friend that he felt inclined to be witty.
"You will be still further convinced of that opinion when you know a little more about me," she said in a jocosely earnest tone. "You know I intend to go to Europe in a fortnight, ostensibly to see the time-honored sights, to gloat over venerable art, and improve my mind generally with such a broad view of experience, but Oh! what a blind that is!" she exclaimed in mock indignation.
There was a considerable delay, and a good deal of talking, and presently Wylie was at their back, and put in his word. Seaton was greatly surprised at finding him there, and asked him where he had sprung from. "Me!" said Wylie, jocosely, "why, I hailed from Davy Jones's locker last." "I never heard you come in," said Seaton, thoughtfully.
His lordship would frequently make himself merry with the story, and jocosely say, that he was more expert in the science of mumping than even Mr. Carew himself. Not long after this, Mr.
"That's a correspondent worth having," said Mr. Brown jocosely. "Can't you give me a letter of introduction?" Ben didn't answer, for he was by this time deep the letter. We will look over his shoulder and read it with him. It ran thus: "No. Madison Avenue, New York, October 5. "My Dear Young Friend: "Will you come to New York and call upon me?
What then may your 'little point' happen to be?" "Have I got to tell you, after all these years and labours?" There was something in the friendly reproach of this jocosely exaggerated that made me, as an ardent young seeker for truth, blush to the roots of my hair.
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