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"Do you mean to her?" "To her." He whispered the pronoun so softly that it sounded like a sigh. "Why didn't you?" "Why didn't I? I can see it was the one honest thing to do. But I thought I'd no business to know about her father's affairs if she didn't; and certainly no business to talk about them." "No. I don't see how you could have done it."
Effectively the word asshur, sometimes written ashur, would be AXUL in Maya. A, in that language, placed before a noun, is the possessive pronoun, as the second person, thy or thine, and xul, means end, termination. It is also the name of the sixth month of the Maya calendar. Axul would therefore be thy end.
Captain Swendon and I wish to hire a boat for the day," turning to the fishermen again. "Can any of you men furnish us with one?" Sutphen lighted his cigar leisurely: "We always manage to provide Captain Swendon with a boat when he wants it. We kin obleege him," with a slight stress on the pronoun. "At what rates?" sharply. "Waal, we kin talk of rates when the day's over.
We must remember that to contest the seat is something. It makes you known. If you don't win, you will wait for the next chance not necessarily here." Dyce had observed that the pronoun "we" was rather frequently on Constance's lips. She was identifying their interests. "True," he admitted. "Look at that magnificent sycamore!" "Yes; but I shouldn't have known it was a sycamore.
And now you are teaching me." The feeling in the child's voice, and the humble emphasis on the pronoun me, touched the old lady; something familiar too in the tone caused her to look up quickly and kindly over her spectacles, and it seemed to her for a moment as if the little, long-lost sister sat opposite to her great grey eyes, delicate skin, bright brown hair, expression of vivid interest, and all.
The mysterious pronoun somehow increased Paul's sense of isolation, and he went on to the drawing-rooms, steering his way prudently between the gold arm-chairs and shining tables, and wondering whether the wigged and corseleted heroes on the walls represented Mr. Moffatt's ancestors, and why, if they did, he looked so little like them.
Moreover, as to the other parts of speech, a pronoun is manifestly a sort of noun; not only because it has cases, but because some pronouns, when they are used of objects already defined, by their mere utterance give the most distinct designation of them. Nor do I know whether he that says SOCRATES or he that says THIS ONE does more by name declare the person.
I don't know whether I have mentioned it previously, but whenever anybody spoke to Her Majesty, they always addressed her as "Great Ancestor," and when referring to themselves, instead of the pronoun "I," they would say "Your slave."
My reader may, however, be desirous of knowing what kind of person is making so much use of the pronoun I. He may have the same curiosity to know his fellow-traveller over the region of these pages, that I had to see the forehead of the clergyman. I can at least prevent any further inconvenience from this possible curiosity, by telling him enough to destroy his interest in me.
"We travelled nearly all over Europe," she replied. I wondered whom she meant by "we." She had never used the plural pronoun before, and I thought of that odious woman in Guernsey an unpleasant recollection. We had wandered back to the opening where Tardif had left us.
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