ninety-and-odd

Updated: May 28, 2025

And instantly afterwards, from another direction, there came a fourth voice, a peevish, tremulous voice, the voice of an old woman. Naomi knew it it was the voice of Rebecca Bensabott, ninety-and-odd years of age, and still deaf as a stone. "Tut! What is all this talking about?" she snapped and grunted. "Reuben Maliki, save your wind for your widows you don't give them too much of it.

Sir Hall Caine - The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable