Tony Walker
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13,674 appearances
24 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Tony Walker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Of the dealings of Edward Bellingham with William Monkhouse Lee and of the cause of the great terror of Abba Crombie Smith, it may be that no absolute and final judgment will ever be delivered.
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It is true that we have the full and clear narrative of Smith himself, and such corroboration as he could look for from Thomas Stiles the servant, from the Reverend Plumtree Peterson Fellow of Olds, and from such other people as chanced to gain some passing glance at this or that incident in a singular chain of events.
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Yet in the main, the story must rest upon Smith as well.
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Alone, and the most will think that it is more likely that one brain, however outwardly sane, has some subtle warp in its texture, some strange flaw in its workings, than that the path of nature has been overstepped in open day, in so famed a centre of learning and light as the University of Oxford.
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Yet, when we think how narrow and how devious.
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This path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards.
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It is a bold and confident man who will put a limit to the strange bypaths into which the human spirit
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May wonder.
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In a certain wing of what we will call old college in Oxford, there is a corner turret of an exceeding great age.
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The heavy arch which spans the open door is bent downwards in the centre under the weight of its years, and the grey lichen blotched blocks of stones are bound and knitted together with wythes and strands of ivy, as though the old mother had set herself to brace them under the
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Up against wind and weather.
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From the door a stone stair curves upwards spirally, passing two landings and terminating in a third one, its steps all shapeless and hollowed by the tread of so many generations of the seekers after knowledge.
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Life has flowed like water down this winding stair, and waterlike, has left these smooth worn grooves behind it.
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From the long gowned pedantic scholars of Plantagenet days, down to the young bloods of a later age, how full and strong had been that tide of young English life.
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And what was left now of all those hopes, those strivings, those fiery engines save here and there, in some old world churchyard, a few scratches upon a stone, and perchance a handful of dust in a mouldering coffin.
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Yet here, with a silent stair and the grey old wall with bend and sol tire, and many another heraldic device still to be read upon its surface, like grotesque shadows thrown back from the days that had passed.
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In the month of May, in the year eighteen eighty four, three young men occupied the sets of rooms which opened onto the separate landings of the old stairs.
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Each set consisted simply of a sitting room and of a bedroom, while the two corresponding rooms upon the ground floor were used, the one as a coal cellar, and the other as a living room with a servant or jip, Thomas Stiles, whose duty it was to wait upon the three men above him.
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To right and left was a line of lecture rooms and offices, so that the dwellers in the old turret enjoyed a certain seclusion, which made the chambers popular among the more studious undergraduates.
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Such were the three who occupied them now Abercrombie Smith above, Edward Bellingham beneath him, and William Monkhouse Lee upon the lowest story.
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