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Darwin's "my's" which occurred in 1869 and 1872. Again: "He who believes that each being has been created as we now see it, must occasionally have felt surprise when he has met," &c. Here the argument evidently lies between descent and independent acts of creation.
These my's were, if I may say so, sneaked out; nothing was said to explain their removal to the reader or call attention to it. Why, it may be asked, having been considered during the revisions of 1861 and 1866, and with only one exception allowed to stand, why should they be smitten with a homing instinct in such large numbers with the fifth edition? It cannot be maintained that Mr.
If one will read Signor Salvini's book, remembering that the pæans of a world have been sung in his honour, and that he really had no superior in his artistic life, I think the I's and my's will seem simply natural.
Everard, with one glance at the figure on the sofa, flinging itself into a sitting posture, and gazing at him in an outraged frenzy, caught his boy in his arms and fled with him upstairs. "My's mummy! My's mummy! Billy wants my's mummy!" the child screamed. His mummy was sitting over the fire in her own room, and her husband, bursting in, deposited Billy on her lap.
This view derives confirmation from the fact that in 1869, with the fifth edition of the "Origin of Species," there was a stampede of my's throughout the whole work, no less than thirty out of the original forty-five being changed into "the," "our," "this," or some other word, which, though having all the effect of my, still did not say "my" outright.
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