no-but-look-here-i-say

Updated: June 17, 2025

'No-but-look-here-I-say, Charlie Woodruff expostulated to Vera when he was alone with her he often started an expostulation with that singular phrase. 'I'm awfully sorry. I don't know how it happened. You must let me give you something else. Vera shook her head. 'No, she said. 'I wanted Stephen awfully to give me that music-stool that I told you about a fortnight ago.

Arnold Bennett - The Grim Smile of the Five Towns