Endnotes

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

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

3. 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.).

   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 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. ↩

4. Mr. Rogers was wrong, vide Dombey and Son, chapter XII. ↩

5. 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 Norbertinum is due to the fact that St. Norbert was founder of the Premonstratensian Order. ↩

6. There is a place for gold where it is hidden. ↩

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

8. Upon one stone are seven eyes. ↩

9. “Keep that which is committed to thee.” ↩

10. Apparently the ichneumon fly (Ophion obscurum), and not the true sawfly, is meant. ↩