'" Mrs. Royston forced herself to take part in the
colloquy at the first opportunity.
"Not at all queer," Bayne promptly contended. "The correlatives of that
locution appear in other languages. The French has _nous autres_, the
Italian, _noi altri_, the Spanish, _nosotros_."
"And pray consider our own classical 'we-all,'" Mrs. Briscoe gayly
interposed, surprised that she could pluck up the spirit for this
interruption.
"More interesting to me is the survival in this sequestered region of old
English words and significations, altogether obsolete elsewhere,"
continued Bayne. "Now, when I asked the driver yesterday the name of a
very symmetrical eminence in the midst of the ranges he said it had no
name, that it was no mountain--it was just the 'moniment' of a little
ridge, meaning the image, the simulacrum. This is Spenser's usage."
"Look here, Julian," said Briscoe, rising suddenly, all his wonted
bluff self again, "if you fire off any more of your philologic wisdom
at us I'll throw you over the cliff.
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