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Speaker 1: renowned medievalist scholar of prestigious British academia who moonlighted as

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Speaker 1: the town. No, Monsieur. Perhaps there used to be one

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Speaker 1: But if Monsieur is amateur de voux, leave, I have

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Speaker 1: of finding priceless manuscripts in untrodden corners of France flashed

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Speaker 1: probably a stupid missile of plantings printing about fifty Where

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Speaker 1: The shield of Alberic de molon To or descendant Dennis

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Speaker 1: The upper windows of the mansion were boarded up, and

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Speaker 1: not the time, not at all, lots of time, nothing

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Speaker 1: Before him lay a large folio bound perhaps late in

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Speaker 1: Dear me, I wish that landlady would learn to laugh

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Speaker 1: The feelings which this horror stirred in Dennis Tune were

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Speaker 1: vouchsafed de foi mille foi jele santi. He would tell

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Speaker 1: them nothing of the provenance of the book, nor any

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Speaker 1: details of his experiences. I shall soon sleep and my

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Speaker 1: rest will be sweet. Why should you trouble me? He

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Speaker 1: died that summer. His daughter married and settled at San Papaul.

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Speaker 1: She never understood the circumstances of her father's obsession. We

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Speaker 1: shall never know what he or canon Alberic Demoleon suffered.

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Speaker 1: At the back of that fateful drawing were some lines

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Speaker 1: the situation. Contradictio salomonis come demonio nocturno Albericus Demolione delineavit

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Speaker 1: vidus in auditorium, ps Key habitat sancte bertrand demoniorum effugato

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Speaker 1: inter cedar promo misreno primum ordi nacte twelve me that's

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Speaker 1: with debo marks or team um pecai it passes some

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Speaker 1: plura adhuc passurus December one I e. The disputest Solomon

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Speaker 1: with a demon of the night, drawn by Albert Demoleon. Versical,

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Speaker 1: Oh Lord, make haste to help me. Psalm, who so

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Speaker 1: to flight, Pray for me most unhappy. I saw it

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Speaker 1: first on the night of December the twelfth sixt Soon

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Speaker 1: I shall see it for the last time. I have

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Speaker 1: sinned and suffered, and have more to suffer yet December

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Speaker 1: than one. The Garlio Christiana gives the date of the

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Speaker 1: cannon's death as December thirty one, sevente in bed of

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Speaker 1: a sudden caesar. Details of this kind are not common

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Speaker 1: in the great work of the Sammathani. I have never

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Speaker 1: quite understood what was Dennis Tune's view of the events

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Speaker 1: I have narrated. He groted to me once a text

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Speaker 1: from Ecclesiasticus. Some spirits there be that are created for vengeance,

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Speaker 1: and in their fury lay on sore strokes. On another occasion,

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Speaker 1: he said, Isaiah was a very sensible man. Doesn't he

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Speaker 1: say something about night monsters living in the ruins of Babylon.

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Speaker 1: These things are rather beyond us at present. Another confidence

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Speaker 1: of his impressed me rather, and I sympathized with it.

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Speaker 1: We had been last year to command to see kind

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Speaker 1: of Alberic's tomb. It is a great marble erection, with

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Speaker 1: an effigy of the cannon in the large wig and soutane,

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Speaker 1: and an elaborate eulogy of his learning. Below. I saw

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Speaker 1: a Dennis Tune talking for some time with the vicar

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Speaker 1: of Saint Bertrand's, and as we drove away, he said

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Speaker 1: to me, I hope it isn't wrong. You know, I

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Speaker 1: am a Presbyterian, but I I believe there will be

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Speaker 1: saying of mass and singing of dirges for Alberic Demoleon's rest.

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Speaker 1: Then he added, with a touch of Northern British in

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Speaker 1: his tone, I had no notion they came so dear.

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Speaker 1: The book is in the went With collection at Cambridge.

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Speaker 1: The drawing was photographed and then burnt by Dennis Tune

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Speaker 1: on the day when he left command, on the occasion

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Speaker 1: of his first visit mmal Canon Alberic's Scrapbook by m

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Speaker 1: R James, narrated by Alex Grass and adapted by Alexander Williams,

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Speaker 1: with producers Max Williams and Trevor Young. To learn more

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Speaker 1: about this story, the author and the real town of

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Speaker 1: Saint bertrand to come on, listen to our bonus episode

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Speaker 1: inside Kennan Albrekts Scrapbook with Arthur Helen Grant, available now.

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Speaker 1: It's almost close to meta fiction in the sense that

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Speaker 1: the real and the fictional are so closely entwined in

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