The reversal of this serio-humorous mingling of fiction and forecast will be found in the next letter.

Amongst the Legitimists some serio-comic scenes were enacted.

" Dorothea put out a hand against the jamb of the surgery door, to steady herself She heard the smack of a palm below and some one uttered a serio-comic groan.

Here Mr. Moore, whom I follow, narrates a serio-comic adventure, which, though it may be, to some of my readers, a twice-told tale, will bear repeating.

The scene which ensued was a grand commingling of the tragic and serio-comic.

He had had a serio-comic flirtation with every girl in turn.

The poets call it Nemesis, but it is indeed God's just judgment, sero sed serio, he strikes home at last, and setteth upon them "as a thief in the night," 1 Thes.

Alterius loci emendationem serio optabat, quem corruptum esse ille non invenit.

Una vez el zagal repuesto de su turbación, le dirigió de nuevo la palabra don Dionís, y con el tono más serio del mundo, y fingiendo un extraordinario interés por conocer los detalles del suceso á que su montero se había referido, le hizo una multitud de preguntas, á las que Esteban comenzó á contestar de una manera evasiva, como deseando evitar explicaciones sobre el asunto.

serio, -a, serious.

Fifthly, having thus lessened the power of the censors, consuls, praetors, and tribunes, he by way of compensationa serio-comic compensation it must have seemed to his shrewd yet superstitious mindrestored the right of co-optation to the sacred colleges of augurs and pontiffs, and increased their numbers, thus multiplying harmless objects of rivalry analogous to the ribands and garters of modern courts.

Indeed, if we compare this serio-comic exaggeration of the Carle with the purely comic picture of Don Armado given by Holofernes, we shall see at a glance that both depict the same object of ridicule.

he asked; and then with a serio-comic glance at his stoutish friend, 'I don't think Smithson waltzes?' 'I have been told that nobody can waltz who has been born on this side of the Pyrenees,' answered Lesbia, withdrawing her arm from her lover's, and slipping, it through the Spaniard's, with the air of a slave who obeys a master.

" With that, she repeated the whole of the talk with Wallace and the serio-fantastic idea that it had led up to.

There was to be an introduction giving the history of New York from the foundation of the world, and the main body of the book was to consist of "notices of the customs, manners, and institutions of the city; written in a serio-comic vein, and treating local errors, follies, and abuses with good-humored satire.

This serio-comic, satirical little paper was started in the year 1861, and was for many years a monthly publication.

Even the serio-comic figure of Emmeline touched me; I had paid her three months' wages and dismissed her.

" The literary results of his Curatorship were three very interesting little pamphlets, "Twelve Months in a Curatorship, by One who has tried it"; "Three years in a Curatorship, by One whom it has tried"; and "Curiosissima Curatoria, by 'Rude Donatus,'" all printed for private circulation, and couched in the same serio-comic vein.

In Ireland matters were certainly sad enough and serious enough without any such serio-comic incidents.

But the serio-comic game of cross-purposes is the same between both couples; and what one may call the irony of human intercourse is equally profound, and pointed with equal subtlety, in each.

"Master," as he once complains, "of one of the finest chains of reasoning in the world, he is unable for the soul of him to get a single link of it into the head of his wife;" but we never hear him lamenting in this serio-comic fashion over his brother's inability to follow his processes of reasoning.

Then commenced a silent cat-hunt, a serio-comic drama in dumb show, with a crowded audience breathlessly gazing from the windows.

The occasion was when it had to put its head out of a loose-box to listen to the singing of a serio-comic song by a lady, dressed as a "gossoon."

" I felt my colour rising to my very temples, dear Mary, for I did not expect this, but I endeavoured to conceal all I felt by seizing her hand, and imploring her, in a serio-comic, semi-tragic tone, not to praise me, for she and papa were the two whose praises would have the effect on me she feared.

and as I assented to this strange question, the proudest satisfaction appeared on the naïve and dirty face of the pretty boy, and with serio-comic expression he said, "Il est de mon pays," for he naturally believed that any man who was generous enough to give him ten sous must be, of course, an admirer of Lafayette, and judged me worthy that he should present himself as a compatriot of that great man.