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The Phantom of the Opera Chapter IX - At the Masked Ball · The Gaston Leroux Library

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  Speaker 1: Chapter nine of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LaRue,
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  Speaker 1: translated by Alexander to Zeradomatus. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Chapter nine at the masked Ball, the
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  Speaker 1: envelope was covered with mud and unstamped. It bore the
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  Speaker 1: words to be handed to Monsieur Les Vicomte Raould de Chignille,
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  Speaker 1: with the address in pencil. It must have been flung
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  Speaker 1: out in the hope that a passer by would pick
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  Speaker 1: up the note and deliver it, which was what happened.
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  Speaker 1: The note had been picked up on the pavement of
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  Speaker 1: the place d'lapera. Raoul read it over again with fevered eyes.
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  Speaker 1: No more was needed to revive his hope. The somber
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  Speaker 1: picture which he had for a moment imagined of a
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  Speaker 1: Christine forgetting her duty to herself made way for his
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  Speaker 1: original conception of an unfortunate, innocent child, the victim of
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  Speaker 1: imprudence and exaggerated sensibility. To what extent at this time
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  Speaker 1: was she really a victim whose prisoner? Was she into?
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  Speaker 1: What whirlpool had she been dragged? He asked himself these
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  Speaker 1: questions with a cruel anguish. But even this pain seemed
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  Speaker 1: endurable beside the frenzy into which he was thrown at
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  Speaker 1: the thought of a lying and deceitful Christine. What had happened,
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  Speaker 1: What influence had she undergone? What monster had carried her?
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  Speaker 1: Often by what means? By what means indeed, but that
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  Speaker 1: of music? He knew Christine's story. After her father's death,
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  Speaker 1: she acquired a distaste of everything in life, including her art.
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  Speaker 1: She went through the conservatoire like a poor, soulless singing machine.
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  Speaker 1: And suddenly she awoke, as though through the intervention of
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  Speaker 1: a god, the Angel of Music appeared upon the scene.
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  Speaker 1: She sang Marguerita infaust and triumphed the Angel of music.
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  Speaker 1: For three months, the Angel of Music had been giving
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  Speaker 1: Christine lessons. Ah he was a punctual singing master, and
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  Speaker 1: now he was taking her for drives in the Bois.
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  Speaker 1: Raoul's fingers clutched at his flesh above his jealous heart.
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  Speaker 1: In his inexperience, he now asked himself with terror, what
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  Speaker 1: game the girl was playing? Up to what point could
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  Speaker 1: an opera singer make a fool of a good natured
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  Speaker 1: young man quite new to love? Oh misery. Thus did
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  Speaker 1: Raoul's thoughts fly from one extreme to the other. He
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  Speaker 1: no longer knew whether to pity Christine or to curse her,
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  Speaker 1: and he pitied and cursed her, turn and turn about.
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  Speaker 1: At all events, he bought a white domino. The hour
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  Speaker 1: of the appointment came at last, with his face in
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  Speaker 1: a mask trimmed with long thick lace, looking like a
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  Speaker 1: pierrot in his white wrap. The Viscount thought himself very ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Men of the world do not go to the opera
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  Speaker 1: ball in fancy dress. It was absurd, one thought, however,
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  Speaker 1: consoled the Viscount. He would certainly never be recognized. This
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  Speaker 1: ball was an exceptional affair, given some time before Shauvetita
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  Speaker 1: in honor of the anniversary of the birth of a
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  Speaker 1: famous draftsman, and it was expected to be much gayer, noisier,
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  Speaker 1: more bohemian than the ordinary masked ball. Numbers of artists
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  Speaker 1: had arranged to go, accompanied by a whole cohort of
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  Speaker 1: models and pupils, who by midnight began to create a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous din. Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes
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  Speaker 1: to twelve, did not linger to look at the motley
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  Speaker 1: dresses displayed all the way up the marble steps, one
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  Speaker 1: of the richest settings in the world, allowed no facetious
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  Speaker 1: mass to draw into a war of wits, replied to
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  Speaker 1: no jests, and shook off the bold familiarity of a
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  Speaker 1: number of couples who had already become a trifle too gay.
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  Speaker 1: Crossing the big crush room and escaping from a mad
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  Speaker 1: whirl of dancers in which he was caught for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: he at last entered the room mentioned in Christine's letter.
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  Speaker 1: He found it crammed, for this small space was the
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  Speaker 1: point where all those who were going to supper in
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  Speaker 1: the rotunda crossed those who were returning from taking a
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  Speaker 1: glass of champagne. The fun here waxed fast and furious.
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  Speaker 1: Raoul leaned against the door post and waited. He did
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  Speaker 1: not wait long. A black domino passed and gave a
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  Speaker 1: quick squeeze to the tips of his fingers. He understood
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  Speaker 1: that it was she and followed her. Is that you, Christine,
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  Speaker 1: he asked between his teeth. The black domino turned round
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  Speaker 1: promptly and raised her finger to her lips, no doubt
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  Speaker 1: to warn him not to mention her name again. Raoul
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  Speaker 1: continued to follow her in silence. He was afraid of
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  Speaker 1: losing her. After meeting her again in such strange circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: his grudge against her was gone. He no longer doubted
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  Speaker 1: that she had nothing to reproach herself with. However peculiar
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  Speaker 1: and inexplicable her conduct might seem. He was ready to
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  Speaker 1: make any display of clemency, forgiveness, or cowardice. He was
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  Speaker 1: in love, and no doubt he would soon receive a
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  Speaker 1: very natural explanation of her curious absence. The Black Domino
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  Speaker 1: turned back from time to time to see if the
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  Speaker 1: White Domino was still following. As Raoul once more passed
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  Speaker 1: through the Great crush Room, this time in the wake
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  Speaker 1: of his guide, he could not help noticing a group
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  Speaker 1: crowding round a person whose disguise, eccentric air, and gruesome
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  Speaker 1: appearance were causing a sensation. It was a man dressed
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  Speaker 1: all in scarlet, with a huge hat and feathers on
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  Speaker 1: the top of a wonderful death's head. From his shoulders
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  Speaker 1: hung an immense red velvet cloak which trailed along the
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  Speaker 1: floor like a king's train. And on this cloak was
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  Speaker 1: embroidered in gold letters which everyone read and repeated aloud.
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  Speaker 1: Don't touch me. I am Red Death stalking abroad. Then
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  Speaker 1: one greatly daring did try to touch him, but a
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  Speaker 1: skeleton hands shot out of a crimson sleeve and violently
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  Speaker 1: seized the rash one's wrist, and he feeling the clutch
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  Speaker 1: of the knucklebones the furious grasp of Death at her
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  Speaker 1: a cry of pain and terror. When Red Death released
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  Speaker 1: him at last, he ran away like a very madman,
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  Speaker 1: pursued by the jeers of the bystanders. It was at
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  Speaker 1: this moment that Raoul passed in front of the funereal
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  Speaker 1: masqueraider who had just happened to turn in his direction,
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  Speaker 1: and he nearly exclaimed the deathshead of Peros Garrek. He
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  Speaker 1: had recognized him. He wanted to dart forward forgetting Christine,
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  Speaker 1: but the Black Domino, who also seemed to prey to
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  Speaker 1: some strange excitement, caught him by the arm and dragged
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  Speaker 1: him from the crush room, far from the mad crowd
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  Speaker 1: through which Red Death was stalking. The Black Domino kept
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  Speaker 1: on turning back, and apparently on two occasions saw something
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  Speaker 1: that startled her, for she heard her pace and Raoul's
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  Speaker 1: as though they were being pursued. They went up two
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  Speaker 1: floors here the stairs and corridors were almost deserted. The
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  Speaker 1: black Domino opened the door of a private box and
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  Speaker 1: beckoned to the white Domino to follow her. Then Christine,
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  Speaker 1: whom he recognized by the sound of her voice, closed
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  Speaker 1: the door behind them and warned him in a whisper
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  Speaker 1: to remain at the back of the box and on
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  Speaker 1: no account to show himself. Raoul took off his mask.
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  Speaker 1: Christine kept hers on, and when Raoul was about to
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  Speaker 1: ask her to remove it, he was surprised to see
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  Speaker 1: her put her ear to the petition and listen eagerly
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  Speaker 1: for a sound outside. Then she opened the door. Ajar
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  Speaker 1: looked out into the corridor and in a low boy
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  Speaker 1: said he must have gone higher. Suddenly, she exclaimed, he
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  Speaker 1: is coming down again. She tried to close the door,
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  Speaker 1: but Raoul prevented her, for he had seen on the
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  Speaker 1: top step of the staircase that led to the floor
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  Speaker 1: above a red foot, followed by another, and slowly, majestically,
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  Speaker 1: the whole scarlet dress of red death met his eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and he once more saw the death's head of Paris Garak.
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  Speaker 1: It's he, he exclaimed, this time he shall not escape me.
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  Speaker 1: But Christine had slammed the door. At the moment when
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  Speaker 1: Raoul was on the point of rushing out, he tried
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  Speaker 1: to push her aside. Whom do you mean by he?
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  Speaker 1: She asked, in a changed voice, Who shall not escape you?
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  Speaker 1: Raoul tried to overcome the girl's resistance by force, but
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  Speaker 1: she repelled him with a strength which he would not
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  Speaker 1: have suspected in her. He understood, or thought he understood,
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  Speaker 1: and at once lost his temper. Who he repeated angrily,
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  Speaker 1: Why he the man who hides behind that hideous mask
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  Speaker 1: of death, the evil genius of the churchyard at Pero's
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  Speaker 1: red death? In a word, Madam, your friend, your angel
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  Speaker 1: of music. But I shall snatch off his mask as
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  Speaker 1: I shall snatch off my own, And this time we
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  Speaker 1: shall look each other in the face, he and I,
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  Speaker 1: with no veil and no lies between us, and I
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  Speaker 1: shall know whom you love and who loves you. He
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  Speaker 1: burst into a mad laugh, while Christine gave a disconsolate
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  Speaker 1: moan behind her velvet mask. With a tragic gesture, she
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  Speaker 1: flung out her two arms, which fixed a barrier of
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  Speaker 1: white flesh against the door. In the name of our love, Raoul,
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  Speaker 1: you shall not pass. He stopped. What had she said,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of their love. Never before had she
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  Speaker 1: confessed that she loved him, And yet she had had
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  Speaker 1: opportunities enough, Pooh. Her only object was to gain a
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  Speaker 1: few seconds. She wished to give the Red Death time
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  Speaker 1: to escape, And in accents of childish hatred, he said,
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  Speaker 1: you lie, madam, for you do not love me, and
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  Speaker 1: you have never loved me. What a poor fellow I
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  Speaker 1: must be to let you mock and flout me as
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  Speaker 1: you have done. Why did you give me every reason
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  Speaker 1: for hope at perils for honest hope, madam? For I
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  Speaker 1: am an honest man, and I believed you to be
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  Speaker 1: an honest woman, when your only intention was to deceive
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  Speaker 1: me alas you have deceived us all. You have taken
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  Speaker 1: a shameful advantage of the candid affection of your benefactress herself,
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  Speaker 1: who continues to believe in your sincerity, while you go
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  Speaker 1: about the opera ball with Red Death. I despise you,
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  Speaker 1: and he burst into tears. She allowed him to salter.
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  Speaker 1: She thought of but one thing to keep him from
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  Speaker 1: leaving the box. You will beg my pardon one day
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  Speaker 1: for all those ugly words, Raoul, And when you do,
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  Speaker 1: I shall forgive you. He shook his head. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: you have driven me mad when I think that I
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  Speaker 1: had only one object in life to give my name
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  Speaker 1: to an opera. Wench, Raoul, how can you? I shall
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  Speaker 1: die of shame. No, dear, live, said Christine's grave and
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  Speaker 1: Jane's voice, and good bye, good bye, Raoul. The boy
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  Speaker 1: stepped forward, Staggering as he went, he risked one more sarcasm.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you must let me come and applaud you from
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  Speaker 1: time to time. I shall never sing again, Raoul, Really,
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  Speaker 1: he replied, still more satirically. So he is taking you
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  Speaker 1: off the stage. I congratulate you, But we shall meet
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  Speaker 1: in the bois one of these evenings. Not in the
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  Speaker 1: bois nor anywhere, Raoul, you shall not see me again.
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  Speaker 1: May one ask, at least to what darkness you are returning?
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  Speaker 1: For what hell are you leaving, mysterious lady, or for
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  Speaker 1: what paradise? I came to tell you, dear, but I
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  Speaker 1: can't tell you now. You would not believe me. You
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  Speaker 1: have lost faith in me, Raoul. It is finished. She
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  Speaker 1: spoke in such a despairing voice that the lad began
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  Speaker 1: to feel remorse for his cruelty. But look here, he cried,
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  Speaker 1: can't you tell me what all this means? You are free,
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  Speaker 1: There is no one to interfere with you. You go
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  Speaker 1: about Paris, you put on a domino to come to
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  Speaker 1: the ball. Why do you not go home? What have
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  Speaker 1: you been doing this past fortnight? What is this tale
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  Speaker 1: about the angel of music which you have been telling
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  Speaker 1: Mamma Valerius. Some one may have taken you in, played
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  Speaker 1: upon your innocence. I was a witness of it myself
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  Speaker 1: at Paris. But you know what to believe. Now you
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  Speaker 1: seem to me quite, said Christine. You know what you
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  Speaker 1: are doing. And meanwhile Mamma Valarius lies waiting for you
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  Speaker 1: at home and appealing to your good genius. Explain yourself, Christine,
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  Speaker 1: I beg of you. Any one might have been deceived
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  Speaker 1: as I was. What is this farce? Christine simply took
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  Speaker 1: off her mask and said, dear, it is a tragedy.
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  Speaker 1: Raoul now saw her face and could not restrain an
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  Speaker 1: exclamation of surprise and terror. The fresh complexion of former
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  Speaker 1: days was gone. A mortal pallor covered those features which
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  Speaker 1: he had known so charming and so gentle, and sorrow
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  Speaker 1: had furrowed them with pitiless lines and traced dark and
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  Speaker 1: unspeakably sad shadows under her eyes. My dearest, my dearest,
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  Speaker 1: he moaned, holding out his arms. You promised to forgive me.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps some day, perhaps, she said, resuming her mask, and
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  Speaker 1: she went away, forbidding him with a gesture to fall.
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  Speaker 1: He tried to disobey her, but she turned round and
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  Speaker 1: repeated her gesture of farewell with such authority that he
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  Speaker 1: dared not move a step. He watched her till she
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  Speaker 1: was out of sight. Then he also went down among
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  Speaker 1: the crowd, hardly knowing what he was doing, with throbbing
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  Speaker 1: temples and an aching heart. And as he crossed the
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  Speaker 1: dancing floor, he asked if anybody had seen red death. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: every one had seen red death. But Raoul could not
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  Speaker 1: find him, and at two o'clock in the morning, he
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  Speaker 1: turned down the passage behind the scenes that led to
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  Speaker 1: Christine Day's dressing room. His footsteps took him to that
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  Speaker 1: room where he had first known suffering. He tapped at
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  Speaker 1: the door, there was no answer. He entered as he
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  Speaker 1: had entered. When he looked everywhere for the man's voice,
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  Speaker 1: the room was empty. A ghast jet was burning turned
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  Speaker 1: down low. He saw some writing paper on a little desk.
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  Speaker 1: He thought of writing to Christine, but he heard steps
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  Speaker 1: in the passage, only time to hide in the inner room,
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  Speaker 1: which was separated from the dressing room by a curtain.
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  Speaker 1: Christine entered, took off her mask with a weary movement,
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  Speaker 1: and flung it on the table. She sighed and let
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  Speaker 1: her pretty head fall into her two hands. What was
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  Speaker 1: she thinking of of Raoul? No, for Raoul heard her
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  Speaker 1: murmur poor poor Eric. At first he thought he must
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  Speaker 1: be mistaken to begin with. He was persuaded that if
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  Speaker 1: anyone was to be pitied, it was he Raoul. It
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  Speaker 1: would have been quite natural if she had said poor Raoul,
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  Speaker 1: after what had happened between them. But shaking her head,
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  Speaker 1: she repeated, poor Eric. What had this Eric to do
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  Speaker 1: with Christine's sighs? And why was she pitying Eric when
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  Speaker 1: Raoul was so unhappy? Christine began to write deliberately, calmly
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  Speaker 1: and so placidly that Raoul, who was still trembling from
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  Speaker 1: the effects of the tragedy that separated them, was painfully impressed.
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  Speaker 1: What coolness, he said to himself? She wrote on filling two, three,
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  Speaker 1: four sheets. Suddenly she raised her head and hid the
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  Speaker 1: sheets in her bodisse. She seemed to be listening. Raoul
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  Speaker 1: also listened. Whence came that strange sound, that distant rhythm,
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  Speaker 1: A faint singing, seemed to issue from the walls. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it was as though the walls themselves were singing. The
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  Speaker 1: song became plainer, The words were now distinguishable. He heard
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  Speaker 1: a voice, a very beautiful, very soft, very captivating voice.
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  Speaker 1: But for all its softness, it remained a male voice.
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  Speaker 1: The voice came nearer and nearer it came through the wall.
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  Speaker 1: It approached, and now the voice was in the room
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  Speaker 1: in front of Christine. Christine rose and addressed the voice,
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  Speaker 1: as though speaking to some one here. I am Erik,
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  Speaker 1: she said, I am ready, but you are late. Raoul,
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  Speaker 1: peeping from behind the curtain, could not be Levy's eyes,
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  Speaker 1: which showed him nothing. Christine's face let up. A smile
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  Speaker 1: of happiness appeared upon her bloodless lips, a smile like
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  Speaker 1: that of sick people when they received the first hope
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  Speaker 1: of recovery. The voice, without a body, went on singing,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly Raoul had never in his life heard anything
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  Speaker 1: more absolutely and heroically sweet, more gloriously insidious, more delicate,
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  Speaker 1: more powerful, in short, more irresistibly triumphant. He listened to
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  Speaker 1: it in a fever, and he now began to understand
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  Speaker 1: how Christine Day was able to appear one evening before
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  Speaker 1: the stupefied audience with accents of a beauty hitherto unknown,
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  Speaker 1: of a superhuman exaltation, while doubtless still under the influence
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  Speaker 1: of the mysterious and invisible Master. The voice was singing
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  Speaker 1: the wedding Night's Song from Romeo and Juliet. Raoul saw
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  Speaker 1: Christine stretch out her arms to the voice, as she
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  Speaker 1: had done in Perros Churchyard, to the invisible violin playing
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  Speaker 1: the Resurrection of Lazarus, and nothing could describe the passion
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  Speaker 1: with which the voice sang Fate links thee to Me
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  Speaker 1: Forever and the day. The strains went through Raoul's heart.
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  Speaker 1: Struggling against the charm that seemed to deprive him of
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  Speaker 1: all his will and all his energy, and of almost
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  Speaker 1: all his lucidity at the moment when he needed them most,
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  Speaker 1: he succeeded in drawing back the curtain that hit him,
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  Speaker 1: and he walked to where Christine stood. She herself was
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  Speaker 1: moving to the back of the room, the whole wall
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  Speaker 1: of which was occupied by a great mirror that reflected
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  Speaker 1: her image, but not his, for he was just behind
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  Speaker 1: her and entirely covered by her. Fate links THEE to
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  Speaker 1: me for ever and a day. Christine walked toward her
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  Speaker 1: image in the glass, and the image came toward her.
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  Speaker 1: The two Christines the rialuin and the reflection ended by touching,
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  Speaker 1: and Raoul put out his arms to clasp the two
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  Speaker 1: in one embrace. But by a sort of dazzling miracle
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  Speaker 1: that sent him staggering, Raoul was suddenly flung back while
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  Speaker 1: an icy blast swept over his face. He saw not
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  Speaker 1: two but four eight twenty Christine spinning round him, laughing
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  Speaker 1: at him and fleeing so swiftly that he could not
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  Speaker 1: touch one of them. At last, everything stood still again,
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  Speaker 1: and he saw himself in the glass, but Christine had disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: He rushed up to the glass. He struck at the
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  Speaker 1: walls nobody, And meanwhile the room still echoed with a distant,
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  Speaker 1: passionate singing. Fate links THEE to me for ever and
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  Speaker 1: a day. Which way, Which way had Christine gone? Which
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  Speaker 1: way would she return? Would she return alas had she
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  Speaker 1: not declared to him that everything was finished? And was
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  Speaker 1: the voice not repeating, Fate links thee to me for ever,
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  Speaker 1: and a day to me to whom, then, worn out, beaten,
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  Speaker 1: empty brained, he sat down on the chair which Christine
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  Speaker 1: had just left. Like her, he let his head fall
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  Speaker 1: into his hands. When he raised it, the tears were
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  Speaker 1: streaming down his young cheeks, real heavy tears, like those
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  Speaker 1: which jealous children shed, tears that wept for a sorrow
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  Speaker 1: which was in no way fanciful, but which is common
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  Speaker 1: to all the lovers on earth, and which he expressed aloud.
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  Speaker 1: Who is this Eric? He said? End of Chapter nine