AVUNCULAR DEVOTIO Having literally fallen asleep from his chair to the rug, J. BUMSTEAD, Esquire, was found to have reached such an extraordinary depth in slumber, that Mr. and Mrs. SMYTHE, his landlord and landlady, who were promptly called in by Mr. DIBBLE, had at first some fear that they should never be able to drag him out again.

Finding Mr. E. DROOD rather overcome by the more festive features of the meal,notwithstanding his walk at midnight with Mr. PENDRAGON,he had allowed his avuncular displeasure thereat to betray itself in a threshing administered with the umbrella.

I was forgetting," he corrected himself, with an avuncular, ironic smile.

He was a dramatic critic, but he consented to take a fatherly, or better avuncular, interest in the Ravinia season during the month of his musical colleague's vacation.

And Mr. Tymperley breathed not a word to the widow; spoke not a word to any one at all, except the lawyer, who quietly wound up his affairs, and the sister whose children must needs go without avuncular aid.

Beside Mrs. Dearman, most charming of hostesses, he sate, in the stage of avuncular affection, and told her that if the Judges knew their business his hunter would win the Hunter-Class first prize and be "Best Horse in the Show" too.

"And leave your side?" replied the great man in manner most avuncular and with little reassuring pats upon the lady's hand.

" Meanwhile, it may be mentioned, evil passions surged in the soul of Mr. John Robin Ross-Ellison as he watched the General, and witnessed his avuncular pattings and confidential whisperings.

She had laughed deprecatingly at the paternal affection, doubtfully at the avuncular, nervously at the cousinly, angrily at the brotherly,and not at all at the manly.

he smiled, gazing down at her in an avuncular manner.

He merely smiled benignly upon Caput in an avuncular fashion.

In a sense not usually assigned to the term, Bushido accepted and corroborated paternal governmentpaternal also as opposed to the less interested avuncular government (Uncle Sam's, to wit!).

His first impulse, after the departure of the mysterious woman, was to hurry around to Mrs. Crull's house, unpack his bundle of proofs, and embrace the dear child with avuncular affection.

Yet as for that, I could live, I believe, with children; to have those Pure and delicate forms encompassing, moving about you, This were enough, I could think; and truly with glad resignation Could from the dream of romance, from the fever of flushed adolescence, Look to escape and subside into peaceful avuncular functions.