half-weariedly

Updated: May 22, 2025

With the sense of this surprise still fresh upon us, the tentative Reading being at the time only a few seconds completed, everything was explained, however, by a half-whispered remark made, to the present writer, in passing, by the Novelist made by him half-weariedly, yet half-laughingly "There! If I have gone through that already to myself once, I have gone through it two hundred times!"

Charles Kent - Charles Dickens as a Reader