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The Two Admirals

CHAPTER IX
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"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?
I believe we perfectly understand you, now.

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.

"_Half_, but no _nullus_.


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