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Ghost Story:
FOOTNOTES:
[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 Maulon. 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.
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