Chapter Caroline to Carthon of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook

was let down, snapped asunder, and she fell into the lake. Sublimus and the other two lived in retirement as a shepherd family, and Carpillona, being rescued by a fisherman, was brought up by him as his daughter. When the “Humpbacked” Prince dethroned the usurper of the Peaceable Islands, Carpillona was one of the captives, and the “Humpbacked” Prince wanted to make her his wife; but she fled in disguise, and came to the cottage home of Sublimus, where she fell in love with his foster-son, who proved to be half- brother of the “Humpbacked” Prince. Ultimately, Carpillona married the foundling, and each succeeded to a kingdom.—Comtesse D’Aulnoy: Fairy Tales (“Princess Carpillona,” 1682).

Carpio (Bernardo del), natural son of don Sancho, and doña Ximena, surnamed “The Chaste.” It was Bernardo del Carpio who slew Roland at Roncesvallês . In Spanish romance he is a very conspicuous figure.

Carrasco (Samson), son of Bartholomew Carrasco. He is a licentiate, of much natural humour, who flatters don Quixote, and persuades him to undertake a second tour.

He was about 24 years of age, of a pale complexion, and had good talents. His nose was remarkably flat, and his mouth remarkably wide.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, II. i. 3 (1615).

He may perhaps boast…as the bachelor Samson Carrasco, of fixing the weather-cock La Giralda of Seville, for weeks, months, or years, that is, for as long as the wind shall uniformly blow from one quarter.—Sir W. Scott.

(The allusion is to Don Quixote, II. i. 14.)

Carric-Thura, in the Orkney Islands, the palace of king Cathulla. It is the title of one of the Ossian poems, the subject being as follows:—Fingal, going on a visit to Cathulla king of the Orkneys, observes a signal of distress on the palace, for Frothal (king of Sora) had invested it. Whereupon Fingal puts to flight the besieging army, and overthrew Frothal in single combat; but just as his sword was raised to slay the fallen king, Utha, disguised in armour, interposed. Her shield and helmet “flying wide,” revealed her sex, and Fingal not only spared Frothal, but invited him and Utha to the palace, where they passed the night in banquet and in song.—Ossian: Carric-Thura.

Carril, the grey-headed son of Kinfena bard of Cuthullin, general of the Irish tribes.—Ossian: Fingal.

Carrillo (Fray) was never to be found in his own cell, according to a famous Spanish epigram.

Like Fray Carillo,
The only place in which one cannot find him
Is his own cell.
   —Longfellow: The Spanish Student, i. 5.

Carrol, deputy usher at Kenilworth Castle.—Sir W. Scott: Kenilworth (time, Elizabeth).

Carroll (Lewis), the pseudonym of the Rev. C. E. Dodgson (1833), attached to Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-glass, Hunting the Snark, etc. (q.v.).

Carstone (Richard), cousin of Ada Clare, both being wards in chancery, interested in the great suit of “Jarndyce v. Jarndyce.” Richard Carstone is a “handsome youth, about 19, of ingenuous face, and with a most engaging laugh.” He marries his cousin Ada, and lives in hope that the suit will soon terminate and make him rich. In the mean time, he tries to make two ends meet, first by the profession of medicine, then by that of law, then by the army; but the rolling stone gathers no moss, and the poor fellow dies with the sickness of hope deferred.—C. Dickens: Bleak House (1853).

Cartaphilus. (See Wandering Jew.)

The story of Cartaphilus is taken from the Book of the Chronicles of the Abbey of St. Albans, which was copied and continued by Matthew Paris, and contains the earliest account of the Wandering Jew, A.D. 1228. In 1242 Philip Mouskes, afterwards bishop of Tournay, wrote the “rhymed chronicle.”