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Dunstan and visits
Boy and Leola are married and travel to Europe, and Dunstan visits the continent for his own amusements.

Dunstan and with
After the 1174 fire in Canterbury Cathedral, Ælfheah's remains together with those of Dunstan were placed around the high altar, at which Thomas Becket is said to have commended his life into Ælfheah's care shortly before his martyrdom during the Becket controversy.
The horseshoe is presented as a talisman in The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil ; Showing how the Horse-Shoe came to be a Charm against Witchcraft, written in 1871 by Edward G. Flight, with illustrations by George Cruikshank and engravings by John Thompson.
His short reign was marked by ongoing conflicts with his family, thegns, and especially the Church, under the leadership of Saint Dunstan and Archbishop Odo.
According to one legend, the feud with Dunstan began on the day of Eadwig's consecration, when he failed to attend a meeting of nobles.
When Dunstan eventually found the young monarch, he was cavorting with a noblewoman named Æthelgifu and refused to return with the bishop.
The account of the quarrel with Dunstan and Cynesige, bishop of Lichfield at the coronation feast is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and in the later chronicle of John of Worcester and was written by monks supportive of Dunstan's position.
This service, devised by Dunstan himself and celebrated with a poem in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, forms the basis of the present-day British coronation ceremony.
Dunstan actively encourages the Danes to integrate with the English.
' Author B ', the biographer and former apprentice of St Dunstan, described with vivid memory how the king sucked out the juices of his food, chewed on what was left and spat it out.
Dunstan got off four shots, hitting Moore in the chest with his. 44 caliber revolver.
Dunstan was mortally wounded with a hole through his ribs by the single shot Moore had squeezed off.
He is at times compared with Saint Dunstan and his struggle with Satan.
About a year after entering into Dee's service, Kelley appeared with an alchemical book ( The Book of Dunstan ) and a quantity of a red powder which, Kelley claimed, he and a certain John Blokley had been led to by a " spiritual creature " at Northwick Hill.
King Edgar and his Archbishop of Canterbury Dunstan instituted a major reform of cathedrals at a synod at Winchester in 970, where it was agreed that all bishops should seek to establish monasticism in their cathedrals following the Benedictine rule, with the bishop as abbot.
In the final scene of the novel where David Staunton is celebrating Christmas with Lizelloti Fitziputli, Magnus Eisengrim, and Dunstan Ramsay he is given a gingerbread bear.
University of Adelaide Professor of Politics Clem Macintyre said that after the State Bank collapse, Rann had to re-establish Labor's credentials as an economic manager as a matter of urgency, and " in that sense Rann had a whole lot of priorities to concentrate on that Dunstan didn't even think about ", with a legacy built on economic achievements, achieving the triple-A credit rating, as well as its capacity to deliver infrastructure projects.
Dunstan is surprised to find out that Percy Boyd Staunton is a major with a D. S. O., and very surprised when Percy announces that he and Leola are to be married.
Dunstan decides to take this with good-humour and continue his friendship with the pair.
Dunstan takes charge of his now emptied household and then acquaints himself with the developments of Deptford over the last four years.
The section ends with Dunstan leaving Deptford in the flesh, though he muses that he ' never wholly left it in the spirit ' ( 100 ).
But Boy is generous to take care of his struggling and frugal friend Dunstan by providing him with investment information.
Dunstan recognizes the man as the tramp he saw in the pit with Mary Dempster all those years ago, and follows the man to talk to him.

Dunstan and Mary
At this time the bells in campanile were rehung and their names recorded as “ Jesus ”, “ Dunstan ”, “ Mary ”, “ Crundale ”, “ Elphy ” ( Alphege ) and “ Thomas ”.
These were St Anne, Limehouse, St Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel, St Dunstan, for Stepney and St George in the East.
Dunstan ’ s mind is opened up to the possibility of illusions and parables being more real than truths, and that Mary redeemed this tramp and made him into an honest God-fearing man.
Joel mentions that he considers Mary Dempster a Saint, and Dunstan takes this as being all-too-real, and considers her redemption of Joel to be the first of three miracles she performed ( the others being the resurrection of Willie, and appearing to Dunstan at Passchendaele ).
Dunstan returns to Deptford one last time to gather information on the whereabouts of the insane Mary Dempster.
Dunstan finds Mary in Toronto.
Bertha allows Dunstan to come back and get to know Mary as a new friend, and not the boy from long ago.
Dunstan reminds us that he visited Mary Dempster every fortnight for four years, until her Aunt died and Mary was left to his care.
She suggests that Dunstan is suffering from the " revenge of the unlived life ": the guilt he feels over events in his life have prevented him from truly living it: he still agonizes over Mary Dempster's condition, and he's never realized just how good he was to accept Leola as a friend when she rejected him in favour of Boy, and even to accept Boy who insisted on mocking him for losing out in their love triangle.
Dunstan shows them the rock, and a box containing Mary Dempster's ashes.
* Mary Dempster — Ten years older than the narrator, Dunstan Ramsay, she plays a pivotal role in his life where she assumes saint-like proportions despite being held in an insane asylum.
The service moved in 1923 to St Dunstan in the East and then to St Mary at Hill, but St Magnus retained close links with the local fish merchants until the closure of old Billingsgate Market.
The bells are named ( in order smallest to largest ) Michael, Margaret, Thomas of Canterbury, Mary, Cedd, Edward the Confessor, Dunstan, John the Baptist, Erkenwald, Paul, Mellitus and Magnus.

Dunstan and Dempster
* In The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies, the scholar Dunstan Ramsay and the stage magician Paul Dempster a. k. a. Magnus Eisengrim end up as the " permanent guests " and lovers of the eccentric Swiss millionaire Lieselotte Naegeli – the three of them occasionally sharing an especially large bed, though " most often in order to have a breakfast in bed or take an important decision " rather than for sex.
By an astonishing coincidence, the young magician who jumps up on stage turns out to be an older and sleazier Paul Dempster, who has obviously made a living on the trade Dunstan first schooled him in some 15 years earlier.
Dunstan tells Mrs. Dempster that he has found Paul.
In 1959, Mrs. Dempster dies after Dunstan transferred her to a private hospital more to her liking using the funds from Eisengrims's biography as well as monthly payments from him ; Dunstan takes care of her cremation and funeral.
Some suspect that the rock may be the rock that struck Mrs. Dempster in Chapter 1, stolen from Dunstan ( Dunstable ) and placed there by Paul Dempster ( Magnus Eisengrim ).
The prominence of matriarchs in Dunstan's life can be linked to Freud's Oedipus Complex ( Dunstan loves Diana and Mrs. Dempster, despite their motherly positions in his life ).

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