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There must have been some mysterious rapport between them, for he understood at once to whom the solitary personal pronoun referred. "Certainly, in the general expression of countenance there is rather a marked resemblance, especially in the region of the teeth and eyes." "Except that the rat's eyes are a thousand times handsomer," she broke in, with a derisive laugh.
Shall we argue from this that the Japanese people have no sense of relation? Of course personal pronouns could not arise without or before the sense of self, but the problem is whether the sense of self could arise without or exist before that particular linguistic device, the personal pronoun? On this problem the Japanese language and civilization throw conclusive light.
N ," answered I, "you will please to speak of us, with a separate, and not a collective pronoun; and you will let me for once have my clothes such as a gentleman, who, I beg of you to understand, is not a Life Guardsman, can wear without being mistaken for a Guy Fawkes on a fifth of November." Mr. N looked very discomfited: "We shall not be liked, Sir, when we are made we sha'n't, I assure you.
"Foolish!" repeated Dolly, in a tone of resentment. But then they both laughed. The Odell girls came down to make a two days' visit. They went up to the Deans' to tea; and the two engaged girls strayed off by themselves, with their arms about each other, and had confidences in which the masculine pronoun played an important part. And poor Polly bewailed the prospect of being left alone.
To hide the instant's confusion she turned her head away, using a hand to gather in her hair, which the wind was lifting lightly. "That wouldn't quite make us quits," she rejoined; "your life is important, mine isn't. You" she nodded towards the Narcissus "you command men." "So dost thou," he answered, persisting in the endearing pronoun. He meant it to be endearing.
"He," however, is hardly the pronoun. The girls are the more active authors, and the more prosaic. What they would write had they never read things written for them by the dull, it is not possible to know. What they do write is this to take a passage: "Poor Mrs. Bald did not know it led to a very deep and dangerous pond. The donky ran into the pond and Mrs. Bald was dround."
Then the envoy began to speak, using the pronoun I as though it were the Matabele king himself who spoke to his vassal, the Makalanga chief: "I sent to you last year, you slave, who dare to call yourself Mambo of the Makalanga, demanding a tribute of cattle and women, and warning you that if they did not come, I would take them. They did not come, but that time I spared you. Now I send again.
"Something of a surprise to run up against you suddenly, like this." "I expected to see you," he answered gravely, and the slight emphasis he gave the pronoun implied not only a complete knowledge of the situation and of the part I had taken in it, but also a greater rebuke than if his accusation had been direct. But I clung to my affability.
"I want a woman of my own kind." "Heaven save me from that classification!" she observed, with emphasis on the pronoun. "Yes?" he drawled. "Well, there's no profit in arguing that point. Let's be getting on." He reached for the lead rope of the nearest pack horse. Hazel urged Silk up a step. "Mr. Wagstaff," she cried, "I must go back." "You can't go back without me," he said.
"You would back your Raffles right or wrong?" I murmured, perceiving that Camilla Belsize was, after all, like all the rest of us. "Against a vulgar extortioner, most decidedly!" she returned, without repudiating the possessive pronoun. "It doesn't follow that I think anything of him apart from what you did between you for Teddy yesterday."
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