End of chapter 33 of the manga 課長島耕作.

> 先斗町 袖より合うも 春の夜の 他生の縁と なつかしむなり

先斗町 is the setting of the chapter.

I guess 春の夜 doesn't differ from its dictionary entry:

> short spring night

I know `袖より合うも他生の縁` is a variation of the proverb `袖すり合うも他生の縁` (although I
don't really get the difference with the より and すり.)

What I'm not understanding is the last part `となつかしむなり`

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Meaning of となつかしむなり in this context?
> ...となつかしむなり

と is quotative particle.

懐かしむ{なつかしむ} is verb meaning "to recall fondly".

I think that this なり could be form of (originally) Evidential _nar-_ which
originally had meanings: (1) "it sounds as if somebody does, one can hear
somebody do", (2) "it is said/reported that somebody does". It should not be
mistaken with homophonous Old/Middle/Classical Japanese copula _nar-_ (← _ni
ar-_ ). Evidential _nar-_ is supposedly contraction of _*na_ "sound" + _ar-_
"to exist", so it conjugates analogically to classical verb
[あり](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%9C%89%E3%82%8A) (ancestor of modern
ある). (Neither of them should be confused with 成る{なる} "to become" and 鳴る{なる}
"to sound, to ring, to roar".)

After mediaeval times, this なり was used only in poetry and literary language,
and it functions as exclamation.
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