elping

Updated: May 7, 2025

And it's as true as I stand here, it was your coming home in such a hurry, and no warning given, out of the kindness of his heart it was, as he says, 'Martha, my beauty, he says, which I ain't, and never was, but you know how them men will go on, 'I can't see you a-toiling and a-moiling and not lend a 'elping 'and; which mine is a strong arm, and it's yours Martha, my dear, says he.

E. (Edith) Nesbit - Five Children and It