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Never before or since, I fancy, has the air of the Adirondack wilderness vibrated more repugnantly to a vocable than it did that night to the word "academicism." Yet Davidson himself was always essentially a teacher. He must give forth, inspire, and have the young about him.
Unaware of the project, he took the opportunity of their privacy to speak of the great station open to her in London being imperilled; and he spoke of 'tongues, and ahem! A very little would have induced him to fill that empty vocable with a name.
It was the allusion made by Janet that recalled the suspicion that he had seen "something." Ah, "something!" what a pregnant vocable so mysterious, so provocative of curiosity an "it!" of all the words in our language, the most suggestive of a difference from the real being of flesh and blood, carrying a name got at the baptismal font, whereby it shall be known and pass current like a counter.
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