"Unfortunately for you there is none of that in it, for mirador means a person looking on, or a balcony. You pay your money and take your choice."
"Do you pay it in English or Spanish money? There is something on the hill that looks like a balcony; and I pay my money for that interpretation."
"There is another point before we come to Algeciras called Rinconcillo," added the pilot.
"Call it Rin-con-cil-yo, for double 1 in Spanish is treated like a single letter, sounded like ly joined," Louis explained.
"Cilyo it is, Don Louis; and I shall be wilying to remember it when I am spelying out a Spanish word and filying up my empty head with such eroodition through the capilyary shafts. But I suppose that four-sylyabler means something."
"You observe that the word is a diminutive."
"I observe," replied Felix, shrugging his shoulders, and extending his two hands like a puzzled or a deprecating Frenchman. "I always thought a diminutive meant something small, and this is a four-syllabler, with eleven letters, counting in the y."
"Does infinitesimal cover the length of the word or its meaning, Flix?"
"Give it up! You always beat me in a literary discussion, my darling; and Oi'm moighty proud of your lairnin'."
"Rinconcillo, without regard to the length of the word, means a small corner," said Louis.