And not as master and servant but as "between man and man,"wherefore Baxter the Valet became merged and lost in Baxter the Human,the honest John of the old days,a gray haired, kindly-eyed, middle-aged cosmopolitan who listened to, and looked at, Young Alcides beside him as if he had indeed been the Master George, of years ago.

And not as master and servant but as "between man and man,"wherefore Baxter the Valet became merged and lost in Baxter the Human,the honest John of the old days,a gray haired, kindly-eyed, middle-aged cosmopolitan who listened to, and looked at, Young Alcides beside him as if he had indeed been the Master George, of years ago.

Apuleius was an unconventional cosmopolitan in that ancient world which he so vividly portrays; he was a barbarian by birth, a Greek by education, and wrote his book in the Romans' language.