16/26 "At one time, he is in the _genitive_, and then he gets back to the _nominative_; which is leaving us in the _vocative_" "Come--come--Atwood, none of your gun-room wit, on an occasion so solemn as this. My dear Sir Wycherly, have you any thing more to tell us? Tom is not _whole_--you wish to say _nullus_, and not to say _nullius_. Sir Reginald is only _half_, but he is no _nullus_." "Yes, sir--that is it," returned the old man, smiling. |