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Updated: May 23, 2025
He is the avowed enemy of nice coats, kid gloves, silk dresses, fine houses, and his proof-reader knows what other et ceteras which ignorant people have been in the habit of looking on as commodities useful in helping trade, and consequently forwarding civilization.
Taking a chair in the corner, I looked around. The scene that presented itself was not reassuring. The main feature of the room was a bar, with an ample supply of barrels, demijohns, bottles, tumblers, and all the et ceteras.
After a short time, the landlady came to the door and beckoned me in, and I found spread out on the table everything that I desired a broiled chicken, smoking hot from the gridiron, a bottle of capital home-brewed ale, and all the et ceteras of an excellent repast. I made use of my pencil in many ways. I always found that a sketch was more useful than a blundering sentence.
On the night of the second day we reached the vicinity of Versailles, and put up at the residence of a backwoodsman a fine looking fellow, with a particularly ugly squaw. He had come from Kentucky five years before sat down in the forest "built him" a log-house wielded his axe to the tune of "The Hunters of Kentucky," and had now eighteen acres of cleared land, and all the et ceteras of a farm.
"You'd much prefer a whisky-and-soda and a grilled steak to the loaf and the et ceteras," observed Nan cynically. "There's a very wide gulf between what a man says and what he thinks." "There's a much wider one between what a man wants and what he gets," he returned grimly. "You'll soon have all you want," she answered. "You're well on the way to fame already."
This crimson room had two doors upon the side facing the three windows: The innermost opened into a large supper-room, in which a table was spread covered with the usual refreshments of European parties, tea, ices, lemonade, and et ceteras, and the other opened into a ball-room which is a sort of miniature of the 'salle blanche' of the Winter Palace, being white and gold, and very brilliantly lighted with 'ormolu' chandeliers filled with myriads of candles.
Now, however, I remark simply, that the gossip and strange stories and incidents and other et ceteras told of him proved to be ridiculous creations, with scarcely a shadow to rest on, having their inception in M -y's peculiarities, peculiarities which originated from an entire and absolute independence of thought and manner and conduct.
They enjoyed her antics so fully that any of them would suffer wrongfully to keep open the avenues of mirth. She would venture far be- yond propriety, thus shielded and countenanced. The teacher's desk was supplied with drawers, in which were stored his books and other et ceteras of the profession.
Letters have for them no meaning; books are for them only to look at; and with a picture the eye is instructed and more pleased." "Let us send to Rome for a cart-load of Madonnas, crucifixes, beads, and all the et ceteras for satisfying and perpetuating superstition and ignorance," said Philip, sarcastically. Della was sensitive to ridicule and remained silent.
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