An' Etcetera, man; etcetera, to God knows what.

Don't mintion it, Ned, till I've gone away, fer I've loved the life here so--I've so enjoyed bein' just Batty, agent, and so forth! Belave me, Ned, it's much comfortabler to be merely a' And-so-forth thin it is to be an' Etcetera.

An' I've loved ye so, Ned! Ye're the noblest nobleman I ivver knew or ivver expict to know." Franklin sat gazing at him without speech, and presently Battersleigh went on.
"It's a bit of a story, lad," said he kindly.

"Ye see, I've been a poor man all me life, ye may say, though the nephew of one of the richest women in the United Kingdom--an' the stingiest.

Instid of doin' her obvayus juty an' supportin' her nephew in becomin' station, she marries a poor little lordlet boy, an' forsakes me entirely.
Wasn't it hijjus of her?
There may have been raysons satisfyin' to her own mind, but she nivver convinced me that it was Christian conduct on her part.