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"Brothers and sisters! I am sure Mrs. Caxton will never think of such a thing, sir," said my father, almost indignantly; "she's much too good a wife to behave so. Once in a way it is all very well; but twice and as it is, not a paper in its place, nor a pen mended the last three days: I, too, who can only write cuspide duriuscula, and the baker coming twice to me for his bill, too!
The noise of the falling water and the sound of distant footsteps going homeward through the sleeping city brought back thoughts of other nights when as a boy in Caxton he had sat thus, thinking disconnected thoughts.
I began now to read steadily, to understand what I did read, and to cast some anxious looks towards the future, with vague notions that I had a place to win in the world, and that nothing is to be won without perseverance and labor; and so I went on till I was seventeen and at the head of the school, when I received the two letters I subjoin. FROM AUGUSTINE CAXTON, Esq.
At last Sir Thomas Malory, a London knight, well read in chivalric literature, combined these tales in the volume he called the "Morte d'Arthur," an excellent specimen of a chivalric romance, which was printed by Caxton in 1485, and has since appeared in many editions down to the present day.
The first time I signed my exercise I wrote "Pisistratus Caxton" in my best round-hand. "And dey call your baba a scholar!" said the Doctor, contemptuously. "Your name, sir, is Greek; and, as Greek, you vill be dood enough to write it, vith vat you call an e and an o, P,e,i,s,i,s,t,r,a,t,o,s.
Rather liked it than otherwise," he added grimly. MR. CAXTON. "Yet many a Spanish matador, who does n't care a button for a bull, would take to his heels at the first lunge en carte from a Frenchman. Therefore, in fact, if courage be a matter of constitution, it is also a matter of custom.
My dear father, you must see him." Mr. Caxton. "I? Yes, assuredly, if I can be of any service. But will he listen to me?" Pisistratus. "I think so. A young man will often respect in his elder what he will resent as a presumption in his contemporary." Mr. Caxton. In what part of the mouldering timbers can I fix the grappling-hook?
MR. CAXTON. "My dear, you will find it in a thin folio at the right on entering my study, written by Thomas Messingham, and called 'Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum, etc. The account therein is confirmed by the relation of an honest soldier, one Louis Ennius, who had actually entered the cavern.
Thus came the thin entering wedge that was to separate the colonel from a measure of his popularity. There had been no objection to the colonel's employing Negroes, no objection to his helping their school if he chose to waste his money that way; but there were many who took offense when a Negro was preferred to a white man. Through Caxton the colonel learned of this criticism.
"I think I will go to Caxton in the morning and have a talk with Mary Underwood," he said. After his return from Caxton Sam set about finding some new interest to occupy Sue's mind. He had spent an afternoon talking to Valmore, Freedom Smith, and Telfer and thought there was a kind of flatness in their jokes and in their ageing comments on each other.
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