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CHAPTER 10 MADAME GIRY VISITS THE PERSIAN |
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For weeks,all Paris talked about that night at the opera. |
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Everybody asked questions, |
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but nobody knew the answers. |
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Where was Christine Daaé? |
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Where was the Vicomte de Chagny? |
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Were they alive,or dead? |
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And the Phantom of the Opera…? |
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Some weeks after that famous night Madame Giry |
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went out one afternoon to a small house near the Rivoli Gardens. |
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She went in and up the stairs to some rooms at the top of the house. |
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The Persian opened the door. |
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Madame Giry looked at him.'My friend, |
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you know the an swers.Please tell me. |
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Are they alive or dead?' |
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'Come in,'the Persian said quietly. |
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They sat down on some chairs by the window, |
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and looked out across the Rivoli Gardens. |
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'Yes,'the Persian said slowly, |
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'The Phantom is dead now. |
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He did not want to live any longer. |
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I saw his body three days ago, |
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and because of that, |
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I can talk to you about him. |
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He can not kill me now.' |
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'So the Phantom was really a man?' Madame Giry asked. |
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'Yes,his name was Erik. |
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That was not his real name,of course. |
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He was born in France, |
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but I knew him in Persia. |
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He was a famous builder and I worked with him there. |
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For a time I was his friend,but not for long. |
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When he came to Paris, |
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I came after him-I wanted to watch him. |
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He was a very clever,very dangerous man. |
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He could be in two,or three,places at the same time. |
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He could be in one place, |
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and his voice could come from another place. |
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He could do many clever things with ropes, |
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and mirrors,and secret doors. |
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You see,he helped to build the Opera House. |
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He built secret passages underground, |
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and his secret house on the lake. |
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He could not live in the outside world, |
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because of his terrible, ugly face. |
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Unhappy Erik! We can feel sorry for him, |
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Madame Giry.He was so clever…and so ugly. |
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People screamed when they saw his face. |
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And so he lived this strange life half-man, |
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half-phantom.But he was a man,in the end. |
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He wanted a woman's love…' |
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He stopped,and Madame Giry asked quietly, |
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'And Christine Daaé and Vicomte Raoul? |
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What happened to them?' |
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The Persian smiled.'Ah yes! |
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What happened to young Raoul and the beautiful Christine…?Who knows?' |
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Nobody in Paris ever saw Raoul and Christine again. |
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Perhaps they took a train to the north, |
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and lived a quiet,happy life to gether there. |
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Perhaps Christine's wonderful voice is still singing, |
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somewhere in the cold and beautiful mountains of Norway. |
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Who knows? |