so-woe-begone

Updated: May 7, 2025

He saw Tommy looking so-woe-begone that it was necessary to ask the reason. "Oh, Birkie, lend me threepence," sobbed Tommy, "and I'll give you sixpence the morn." "You're daft," said Birkie, "there's no a laddie in Thrums that will have one single lonely bawbee the morn."

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie - Sentimental Tommy: The Story of His Boyhood