"Fame, of course," he said in a jaunty tone.
He can't sustain his usual jaunty tone.
But that struck him as too jaunty a tone, especially after almost forty years, and so he'd tried again, taking a more straightforward approach.
Mr. Malone's jaunty tone elicited few smiles from this crowd.
"Morning, " Quinn said in a jaunty tone.
The jaunty tone was jarring.
Then his words came in a mutter so unlike his usual jaunty tones as he announced, 'They won't have me.'
"My name is St. John Alaric Hirst," he began in a jaunty tone of voice.
"However," he said, resuming his jaunty tone, "I suppose one must just make up one's mind to it."
It later takes on a jaunty satirical tone when Peer Gynt becomes a successful businessman and a would-be prophet.