so-much-given-for-so-much-got

Updated: June 3, 2025

I was not ready to consent to an unconditional surrender. "I hate your 'ifs' and 'buts' and so-much-given-for-so-much-got," she exclaimed with an impatient, little stamp, "but but " she added inconsistently, "if if you'll keep one end of the plaid for yourself, I'll take the other." "Ho ho! I like 'ifs' and 'buts. Have you more of that kind?" I laughed, whisking the fold about us both.

Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut - Lords of the North

And all the while that vow to the dying adventurer was ringing like a faint death toll to hope. I remember trying to speak a gratitude too deep for words. "Can I ever ever repay you Hortense?" I was asking. "Repay!" she said with a little bitter laugh. "Oh! I hate that word repay! I hate all give-and-take and so-much-given-for-so-much-got!"

Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut - Heralds of Empire: Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade