Of course Vantine had been merely jesting when he named that limit.

They couldn't kerry him no furder, an' sot him deown; an' there wuz all the trees a-wavin' overhead ag'in, an' all the sweet scents a-beatin' abeout the air, jest uz it wuz a year ago w'en he parted from me so strong an' whole an' harnsome; all the fleowers wuz a-blossomin', all the winds wuz blowin' an' this lump uv torn flesh an' broken bones wuz 'Miah.

He jested gaily with the dame, looking nicely upon her, and made a great semblance of friendship.

I asked thee if it were thou who sang?" Retreating from the window a step or two, Victorine said sorrowfully: "I did not think that thou hadst the face of one who would jest lightly with maidens."

" Rawbon squirmed uneasily to think he should, however unwittingly, have jested about their dead, but nobody there seemed in any way shocked or resentful.

As he came up to them, coarse jests, and snatches of low drinking-songs, ghastly as the laughter of lost spirits in the pit, mingled with the feeble wailings of some child of shame.

"Stand jest heresonow!

If a man talks of the main chance, meaning thereby that of making money, or of number one, meaning thereby self, except indeed he honestly jest, he is a servant of mammon.

If without wronging others, or derogating from ourselves, we can be facetious, if we can use our wits in jesting innocently, and conveniently, we may sometimes do it: but let us, in compliance with St. Paul's direction, beware of "foolish talking and jesting which are not convenient.

" "When was that, Mr. Buckhurst?" "Jest inside of a month ago, Sir, one night.

then I hear him callin' me 'James, James.' I can hear him jest 's plain sometimes, when the wind 's blowin' in the trees, an' I jest ache to up an' foller him.

Mrs. Greenfield, the doctor's wife, admitted that it would be an excellent match, "jest a child apiece, both on 'em well brought up, used to good company, and all that; but, land's sakes!

Very significantly, indeed, did it strike me now, though I had jested on the subject so merrily of old with Evelyn and George Gaston.

HENNINGS Look now at yonder eager crew, How naïvely they're jesting!

Then, desperately, he blurted out, "Because you're dead-set on keepin' the seventh commandment, you're jest naterally drivin' me to break the sixth.

" While my watch was thus pleasantly jesting, we had passed through a low pine wood and come out upon the banks of the Charles River.

I'm bettin' on my draw to be jest the necessary half a hair quicker.

She could safely jest with him, let him pet her, play at being his daughter, while she felt that between him and her lay a gulf as wide as between earth and heaven; and that very notion comforted her in her naughtiness; for in that case, of course, his code of morals was not meant for her; and while she took his warnings (as many of them at least as she chose), she thought herself by no means bound to follow his examples.

An', fact, I thought it was the wind a spell, Then some misdoubted,couldn't fairly tell, Fust sure, then not, jest as you hold an eel, I knowed, an' didn't,fin'lly seemed to feel 'T was Concord Bridge a-talkin' off to kill With the Stone Spike thet's druv thru Bunker Hill: Whether't was so, or ef I only dreamed, I couldn't say; I tell it ez it seemed.

Is dat fair?" "Well, it suttinly soun's puff'cly jest," replied Mr. Scott.

" "Oh, you must be jesting, cruelly jesting.

Do not jest too familiarly with your superiors (Kelly), or with dangerous characters.