CHARALOIS 
 
 
calls her to task, but finds he is mistaken. 
He fancies her guardian, old Acasto, has 
not been sufficiently watchful over her, 
and draws upon him in his anger, but sees 
his folly just in time to prevent mischief. 
He fancies Castalio, his sister's husband, 
has ill-treated her, and threatens to kill 
him, but his suspicions are again alto- 
gether erroneous. In fact, his presence in 
the house was like that of a madman with 
fire-brands in a stack-yard.-Otway, The 
Orphan (1680). 
  There are characters in which he [G. H. Young] 
is unrivalled and almost perfect. His "Pierre" 
[Venice Preserved, Otway] is more soldierly than 
Kemble's; his "Chamont" is full of brotherly 
pride, noble impetuosity, and heroic scorn.- 
New Monthly Magazine (1822). 
 
  Champagne (Henry earl of), a crusader. 
-Sir W. Scott, The Talisman (time, Rich- 
ard I.). 
 
  Cham'pernel', a lame old gentleman, 
the husband of Lami'ra, and son-in-law of 
judge Vertaigne (2 syl.).-Beaumont and 
Fletcher, The Little French Lawyer (1647). 
 
  Champion of the Virgin. St. Cyril 
of Alexandria is so called from his defence 
of the "Incarnation " or doctrine of the 
"hypostatic union," in the long and stormy 
dispute with Nesto'rius bishop of Constan- 
tinople. 
 
  Champneys (Sir Geoffry), a fossilized 
old country gentleman, who believes in 
"blue blood" and the "British peerage." 
Father of Talbot, and neighbor of Perkyn 
Middlewick, a retired butterman.    The 
sons of these two magnates are fast friends, 
but are turned adrift by their fathers for 
marrying in opposition to their wishes. 
When reduced to abject poverty, the old 
men go to visit their sons, relent, and all 
ends happily. 
 
 
  Miss Champneys, sir Geoffry's sister, 
proud and aristocratic, but quite willing to 
sacrifice both on the altar of Mr. Perkyn 
Middlewick, the butterman, if the wealthy 
plebeian would make her his wife and 
allow her to spend his money.-lH. J. 
Byron, Our Boys (1875). 
  Talbot Champneys, a swell with few 
brains and no energy. His name, which 
is his passport into society, -will not find 
him salt in the battle of life. He mar- 
ries Mary Melrose, a girl without a penny, 
but his father wants him to marry Violet 
the heiress. 
 
  Chan'ticleer (3 syl.), the cock, in the 
beast-epic of Beynard the Fox (1498), and 
also in "The Nonne Preste's Tale," told in 
The Canterbury Tales, by Chaucer (1388). 
 
  Chaon'ian Bird (The), the dove; so 
called because doves delivered the oracles 
of Dod~na or Chaon'ia. 
  But the mild swallow none with toils infest, 
  And none the soft Chaonian bird molest. 
                     Ovid, Art of Love, I. 
 
  Chaonian Food, acorns, so called from 
the oak trees of Dod6na, which gave out 
the oracles by means of bells hung among 
the branches. Beech mast is so called also, 
because beech trees abounded in the forest 
of Dodona. 
 
  Charalois, son of the marshal of Bur- 
gundy. When he was twenty-eight years 
old his father died in prison at Dijon, for 
debts contracted by him for the service of 
the State in the wars. According to the 
law which then prevailed in France, the 
body of the marshal was seized by his 
creditors, and refused burial. The son of 
Charalois redeemed his father's body by 
his own, which was shut up in prison in 
lieu of the marshal's.-Philip Massinger, 
The Fatal Dowry (1632). 
 
 
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