a

We now know that these leaves did contain a considerable fragment of that work, if not of that actual copy of it.

b

He died that summer; his daughter married, and settled at St. Papoul. She never understood the circumstances of her father’s “obsession.”

c

I.e., The Dispute of Solomon with a demon of the night. Drawn by Alberic de Mauléon. Versicle. O Lord, make haste to help me. Psalm. Whoso dwelleth (xci.).¹⁴

Saint Bertrand, who puttest devils to flight, pray for me most unhappy. I saw it first on the night of Dec. 12, 1694: soon I shall see it for the last time. I have sinned and suffered, and have more to suffer yet. Dec. 29, 1701.

The “Gallia Christiana”¹⁵ gives the date of the Canon’s death as December 31, 1701, “in bed, of a sudden seizure.” Details of this kind are not common in the great work of the Sammarthani.

d

Mr. Rogers was wrong, vide Dombey and Son, chapter xii.⁵

e

An account of the Premonstratensian abbey of Steinfeld, in the Eiffel, with lives of the Abbots, published at Cologne in 1712 by Christian Albert Erhard, a resident in the district. The epithet Nobertinum is due to the fact that St. Norbert was founder of the Premonstratensian Order.¹

f

There is a place for gold where it is hidden.²

g

They have on their raiment a writing which no man knoweth.³

h

Upon one stone are seven eyes.⁴

i

“Keep that which is committed to thee.”