Jocose

The tone of the proclamation was not as jocose as in the former Chigírin talks.

When she came home in the evening with one of her friends, she presented the girl with jocose eagerness to his embrace.

"Well," in a loose, jocose manner, "I think the old man will!"

It was an expression of half-jocose refutal, and, on occasions, of straightforward admiration tinged with disbelief.

But it may be pleaded for Jervas that a good deal of this rigidity is due to his abhorrence of the light, flippant, jocose style of his predecessors.