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Armitage, while he busied himself in pouring out a glassful, assumed an air of jocoseness and said: "Perhaps you would not object to opening a private class instruction in nerves and the like, by which means I might gain some information, and you prove a benefactor to your race." Then to Pliny: "Now, sir, drink that, and it will put new life into you."
But I fancy you are the man who knew most about what Mrs. Grandcourt felt or did not feel eh, Dan?" Sir Hugo did not put this question with his usual jocoseness, but rather with a lowered tone of interested inquiry; and Deronda felt that any evasion would be misinterpreted. He answered gravely "She was certainly not happy. They were unsuited to each other.
The other was more singular: with his recovered reason came his first grey hair, and in one fortnight it was all as white as snow. He remained a fortnight on board the Vulture, beloved by high and low. He walked the quarter-deck in the dress of a private gentleman, but looking like an admiral. The sailors touched their hats to him with a strange mixture of veneration and jocoseness.
Unhappily, the baronet, who by some fatality never could see when he was winning the battle, thought proper in his wisdom to water the dryness of his sermon with a little jocoseness, on the subject of young men fancying themselves in love, and, when they were raw and green, absolutely wanting to be that most awful thing, which the wisest and strongest of men undertake in hesitation and after self-mortification and penance married!
Kent looked up quickly. "Judge Marston, do you know that last assertion to be true?" he demanded. The slow smile came and went in the introspective eyes of the older man. "I have been giving you the opinion of the higher court," he said, with his nearest approach to jocoseness. "It is based upon the supposition that your allegations would be supported by evidence."
"I cal'late we didn't get out any too soon, Miss Carvel," he remarked, with a sad attempt at jocoseness. "There won't be a great deal in that town when the Dutch get through with it." "I think that there are enough men left in it to save it," said Virginia. Apparently Mr. Hopper found no suitable answer to this, for he made none. He continued to glance at her uneasily.
Mirthfulness Jocoseness, wit, fun. 6. Human Nature Perception of motives. 7. Agreeableness Pleasantness, suavity. VI. Intellectual Faculties. Individuality Observation, desire to see. Form Recollection of shape. Size Measuring by the eye. Weight Balancing, climbing. Color Judgment of colors. Order Method, system, arrangement. Calculation Mental arithmetic. Locality Recollection of places.
Country girls are not often invited to correspond with literary ladies in London. He said it with as much jocoseness as civility allowed, then at once rose. 'Father will be very sorry, Marian began, with one quick glance towards the window and then another towards the door. 'Perhaps he might possibly be able to see you before you go? Jasper stood in hesitation.
Not shaken by this reply, which cannot be called unfair, and which, notwithstanding its jocoseness, was exactly the answer which the gravest divine would have made to such scruples, the witness persisted in his position; and on being permitted to give evidence in his own peculiar way, he had enough influence with the jury to induce them to give a verdict adverse to Erskine's wishes.
Guppy acknowledged the receipt by taking it out of his breast- pocket, putting it to his lips, and returning it to his pocket with a bow. Mr. Guppy's mother was so diverted that she rolled her head as she smiled and made a silent appeal to Caddy with her elbow. "Could I speak to you alone for a moment?" said I. Anything like the jocoseness of Mr. Guppy's mother just now, I think I never saw.
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