more-and-and

Updated: May 2, 2025

Then Margaret held out the letter to Eli, and said faintly but sweetly, "I will trust it from my hand now. In sooth, I am little fit to read any more-and-and loth to leave my comfort;" and she wreathed her other arm round Catherine's neck. "Read thou, Richart," said Eli: "thine eyes be younger than mine." Richart took the letter. "Well," said he, "such writing saw I never.

Charles Reade - The Cloister and the Hearth