past-and-done-with

Updated: May 11, 2025

I've concluded that you and I had better cut out all the bygones from this new arrangement of ours. We won't have fathers or or elopements or past-and-done-with disapp'intments in it. This new deal this four year trial v'yage of ours will be just for Albert Speranza and Zelotes Snow, and no others need apply. . . . Eh? . . . Well, good night, Al." So the game under the "new deal" began.

Joseph Crosby Lincoln - The Portygee