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Updated: June 16, 2025
Looking in at what is called in Dullborough 'the serious bookseller's, where, in my childhood, I had studied the faces of numbers of gentlemen depicted in rostrums with a gaslight on each side of them, and casting my eyes over the open pages of certain printed discourses there, I found a vast deal of aiming at jocosity and dramatic effect, even in them yes, verily, even on the part of one very wrathful expounder who bitterly anathematised a poor little Circus.
The slim gentleman in evening dress, polished manners, and gentle voice, with a tone of good breeding that hovered between deference and jocosity; the owner of those thin those much too thin white hands could not be the man who spelt joke with a "g."
Any one passing down the narrow hallway could have seen him bent over a mass of papers on the table, his portable typewriter close at hand. The following morning, armed with a little hand satchel, he tramped down to Henry Plant's house. The Supervisor met him on the verandah. "Right on deck!" he roared jovially. "Come in! All ready for the doctor!" Thorne did not respond to this jocosity.
Now the parts were reversed, and the younger man found great solace in jocosely rallying his senior on his unwonted zeal and activity. Ayre accepted his friend's jocosity and his own excitement with equal placidity. Reproaches had never stirred him to exertion; ridicule would not stop him now.
"Nothing much," mused the White Linen Nurse very softly. With sudden alertness she turned her curly blonde head towards the road. "There's somebody coming!" she said. "I hear a team!" Overcome by a bashfulness that tried to escape in jocosity, the Senior Surgeon gave an odd little choking chuckle.
"Well, I do say!" she said; and Maurice, pausing at the voice in the dark, began a brief, "Excuse me; I stumbled " saw who it was, and said, "Why, Miss Lily! How are you? I haven't seen you for an age!" She answered with some small jocosity; then suddenly struck her little fist on the railing. "Well, I'm just miserable; that's how I am, if you want to know! Batty " Maurice frowned.
The composer has set jocosity side by side with horror a jocosity in which he mocks at the only realism he had allowed himself amid the sublime imaginings of his work the pure calm love of Alice and Raimbaut; and their life is overshadowed by the forecast of evil.
This arrangement, instead of giving me some freedom, shackled me to the reporter, who dashed from celebrity to celebrity, grass to nuclei, office to point of momentary interest, with unflagging energy and infuriating jocosity. I knew his repertory of tricks and accents down to the last yawn. Most of all I resented his irregular habits.
"This poor man was so strangely deluded as to the value of a novel in manuscript, which it appears he had just completed, that he positively sacrificed his life in the endeavour to rescue it from the flames." And the Saturday would have had a column of sneering jocosity on the irrepressibly sanguine temperament of authors. At all events, I should have had my day of fame.
"The term 'old boy' has, alas, declined upon the vernacular, and been put to base uses of jocosity, so it is a forbidden one. Else, in the present instance, how applicable, how descriptive a term! Should we, I wonder, give thanks for it, Miss St. Quentin, that the men of my generation will mature according to a quite other pattern?" "Will not ripen, but sour?" Honoria asked maliciously.
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