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There must be lots of traffic there in the shape of sheep, grouse, and Cockney tourists, not to mention salmon and other et-ceteras. Couldn't we tip them a railway somewhere in the west?" "There's Glenmutchkin, for instance " "Capital, my dear fellow! Glorious! By Jove, first-rate!" shouted Bob in an ecstasy of delight.
He was a very large tall man, with tremendously big feet a great man for dress wore top-boots, white neckcloth, long blue coat, with all the et-ceteras, and used hair-powder. He was, withal, very clever, and had an immensity of mother-wit. He rode the best horse in the country, kept greyhounds, and galloped a horse he called the "Rattler."
Thank you for nothing!" and other sentences of a derisive character. "I want a complete rig-out," continued Joseph Wilmot; "a new suit of clothes hat, boots, umbrella, a carpet-bag, half-a-dozen shirts, brush and comb, shaving tackle, and all the et-ceteras.
'When she was at school in Devonshire, she was universally allowed to be beyond all exception the very cleverest girl there, and there were a great many very clever ones too, and that's the truth twenty-five young ladies, fifty guineas a year without the et-ceteras, both the Miss Dowdles the most accomplished, elegant, fascinating creatures Oh dear me! said Mrs Nickleby, 'I never shall forget what pleasure she used to give me and her poor dear papa, when she was at that school, never such a delightful letter every half-year, telling us that she was the first pupil in the whole establishment, and had made more progress than anybody else!
Now, Charlie, to enjoy his book under congenial circumstances, and where he would not be interrupted by his mother saying, "Charlie, bring some wood," and "Charlie, get some water," and the various et-ceteras of domestic duty to which boys of his age and active habits are liable, looked about for some safe retreat, and chanced to find, one day, in the woods near at hand, a large, hollow tree.
There was much free talk going on about Texan annexation, about chances of war with Mexico, about San Domingan affairs, about Cuba and many et-ceteras. Galahad was in his usual gay mood.
Barton, in retrieval of the accident that had occurred at his table, yet, dear me as every husband has heard what is the present of a gown when you are deficiently furnished with the et-ceteras of apparel, and when, moreover, there are six children whose wear and tear of clothes is something incredible to the non-maternal mind?
"Yes," said Lord Marylebone; "if a fellow is to make his home for a month upon the seas, it is as well to make it as comfortable as possible. Each of us has his own crib, with a bath to himself, and all the et-ceteras. This is where we feed. It is not altogether a bad shop for grubbing." As I looked round I thought that I had never seen anything more palatial and beautiful.
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