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ce regent, at a salary of L1000 per annum, but he left this situation because the prince had only a _menage bourgeois_, and entered the service of baron Rothschild at Paris (1784-1833). CAREY, innocent-faced rich young dude in Ellen Olney Kirk's novel, _A Daughter of Eve_ (1889). _Carey (Patrick)_, the poet brother of lord Falkland, introduced by sir W. Scott in _Woodstock_ (time, Commonwealth). CAR'GILL _(The Rev. Josiah_), minister of St. Ronan's Well, tutor of the hon. Augustus Bidmore (2 _syl_.), and the suitor of Miss Augusta Bidmore, his pupil's sister.--Sir W. Scott, _St. Ronan's Well_ (time, George III.). CARI'NO, father of Zeno'cia, the chaste troth-plight wife of Arnoldo (the lady dishonorably pursued by the governor count Clodio).--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Custom of the Country_ (1647). CAR'KER _(James)_, manager in the house of Mr. Dombey, merchant. Carker was a man of forty, of a florid complexion, with very glistening white teeth, which showed conspicuously when he spoke. His smile was like "the snarl of a cat." He was the Alas'tor of the house of Dombey, for he not only brought the firm to bankruptcy, but he seduced Alice Marwood (cousin of Edith, Dombey's second wife), and also induced Edith to elope with him. Edith left the wretch at Dijon, and Carker, returning to England, was run over by a railway train and killed. _John Carker_, the elder brother, a junior clerk in the same firm. He twice robbed it and was forgiven. _Harriet Carker_, a gentle, beautiful young woman, who married Mr. Morfin, one of the _employes_ in the house of Mr. Dombey, merchant. When her elder brother John fell into disgrace by robbing his employer, Harriet left the house of her brother James (the manager) to live with and cheer her disgraced brother John.--C. Dickens, _Dombey and Son_ (1846). CARLETON (_Captain_), an officer in the Guards.--Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.). CARLISLE (_Frederick Howard, earl of_), uncle and guardian of lord Byron (1748-1826). His tragedies are _The Father's Revenge_ and _Bellamere_. The paralytic puling of Carlisle... Lord, rhymester, _petit-maitre_, pamphleteer. Byron, _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_ (1809). CARLOS, elder son of don Antonio, and the favorite of his paternal uncle Lewis. Carlos is a great bookworm, but when he falls in love with Angelina he throws off his diffidence and becomes bold, resolute, and manly. His younge
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