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The Phantom of the Opera Chapter II - The New Margarita · The Gaston Leroux Library

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  Speaker 1: Chapter two of the Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux,
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  Speaker 1: translated by Alexander Desera Dematos. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Chapter two, the New Margherita. On the
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  Speaker 1: first landing, Sorelli ran against the Comte de de Chonne,
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  Speaker 1: who was coming upstairs. The Count, who was generally so calm,
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  Speaker 1: seemed greatly excited. I was just going to call you,
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  Speaker 1: he said, taking off his hat. Oh, Sorelli, what an
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  Speaker 1: evening and Christine Day, what a triumph? Impossible, said Meg
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  Speaker 1: Shieri six months ago. She used to sing like a croc.
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  Speaker 1: But do let us get by, my dear, count, continues
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  Speaker 1: the brat with a saucy curtsey. We are going to
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  Speaker 1: inquire after a poor man who was found hanging by
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  Speaker 1: the neck. Just then the acting manager came fussing past
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  Speaker 1: and stopped when he heard this remark. What he exclaimed, ruptly,
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  Speaker 1: have you girls heard already? Well, please forget about it
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  Speaker 1: for to night, And above all, don't let Monsieur de
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  Speaker 1: Bien and Monsieur Poulignier here It would upset them too much.
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  Speaker 1: On their last day, they all went on to the
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  Speaker 1: foyer of the ballet, which was already full of people.
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  Speaker 1: The Comte de Chonnier was right. No gala performance ever
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  Speaker 1: equalled this one. All the great composers of the day
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  Speaker 1: had conducted their own works in turns for and Krauss
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  Speaker 1: had sung, and on that evening Christine Day had revealed
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  Speaker 1: her true self for the first time to the astonished
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  Speaker 1: and enthusiastic audience. Gunnard had conducted the funeral March of
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  Speaker 1: a Marionette Rier, his beautiful overture to Sigoire Saint Saints,
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  Speaker 1: the Dance Macabre and Reverie orientale Macenee, an unpublished Hungarian march, Gurraws,
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  Speaker 1: his Carnival de la bay, the Valse Lentee from Silvia
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  Speaker 1: and the Pizzicatti from Coppelia. Ma'amoiselle. Krauss had sung the
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  Speaker 1: Ballero in the Best Free Siciliani and Mamiselle Denise Bloch
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  Speaker 1: the drinking Song in Lucrezia Borgia. But the real triumph
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  Speaker 1: was reserved for Christine Day, who had begun by singing
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  Speaker 1: a few passages from Romeo and Juliet. It was the
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  Speaker 1: first time that the young artists sang in this work
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  Speaker 1: of Gunnau, which had not been transferred to the opera,
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  Speaker 1: and which was revived at the Opera Comique after it
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  Speaker 1: had been produced at the old Theater Lyriq by Madame Carvaljo.
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  Speaker 1: Those who heard her say that her voice in these
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  Speaker 1: passages was so graphic, but this was nothing to the
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  Speaker 1: superhuman notes that she gave forth in the prison scene
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  Speaker 1: and the final trio in Faust, which she sang in
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  Speaker 1: the place of La Carlata, who was ill. No one
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  Speaker 1: had ever heard or seen anything like it. Day revealed
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  Speaker 1: a new Margherita that night, a Margherita of a splendor
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  Speaker 1: of radiance hitherto unsuspected. The whole house went mad, rising
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  Speaker 1: to its feet, shouting, cheering, clapping, while Christine sobbed and
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  Speaker 1: fainted in the arms of her fellow singers and had
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  Speaker 1: to be carried to her dressing room. A few subscribers, however,
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  Speaker 1: protested why had so great a treasure been kept from
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  Speaker 1: them all that time till then Christine Day had played
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  Speaker 1: a good sea bowl to Carta's rather too splendidly material Margherita,
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  Speaker 1: and it had needed Carlutta's incomprehensible and inexcusable absence from
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  Speaker 1: this gala night for the little Day at a moment's
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  Speaker 1: warning to show all that she could do in a
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  Speaker 1: part of the program reserved for the Spanish diva. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what the subscribers wanted to know was why had Debienne
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  Speaker 1: and Poligne applied to day when Carlotta was taken ill
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  Speaker 1: did they know of her hidden genius? And if they
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  Speaker 1: knew of it, why had they kept it hidden? And
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  Speaker 1: why had she kept it hidden? Oddly enough, she was
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  Speaker 1: not known to have a professor of singing at that moment.
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  Speaker 1: She had often said she meant to practice alone for
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  Speaker 1: the future. The whole thing was a mystery. The Comte
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  Speaker 1: de de Chignie, standing up in his box, listened to
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  Speaker 1: all this frenzy and took part in it by loudly applauding.
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  Speaker 1: Philippe georget Marie, Comte de Chaigni, was just forty one
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  Speaker 1: years of age. He was a great aristocrat and a
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  Speaker 1: good looking man, above middle height and with attractive features.
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  Speaker 1: In spite of his hard forehead and his rather cold eyes.
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  Speaker 1: He was exquisitely polite to the women and a little
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  Speaker 1: haughty to the men, who did not always forgive him
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  Speaker 1: for his successes in society. He had an excellent heart
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  Speaker 1: and an irreproachable conscience. On the death of old Count Philibert,
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  Speaker 1: he became the head of one of the oldest and
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  Speaker 1: most distinguished families in France, whose arms dated back to
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  Speaker 1: the fourteenth century. The Chagnie owned a great deal of property,
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  Speaker 1: and when the old Count, who was a widower, died,
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  Speaker 1: it was no easy task for Philippe to accept the
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  Speaker 1: management of so large and est His two sisters and
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  Speaker 1: his brother Raoul would not hear of a division and
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  Speaker 1: waived their claim to their shares, leaving themselves entirely in
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  Speaker 1: Philippe's hands, as though the right of primogeniture had never
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  Speaker 1: ceased to exist. When the two sisters married on the
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  Speaker 1: same day, they received their portion from their brother, not
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  Speaker 1: as a thing rightfully belonging to them, but as a
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  Speaker 1: dowry for which they thanked him. The Comtesse de Chaignie
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  Speaker 1: ni de Morogi de la Martignea had died in giving
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  Speaker 1: birth to Raoul, who was born twenty years after his
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  Speaker 1: elder brother. At the time of the old Count's death,
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  Speaker 1: Raoul was twelve years of age. Philippe busied himself actively
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  Speaker 1: with the youngster's education. He was admirably assisted in this work.
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  Speaker 1: First by his sisters, and afterward by an old aunt,
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  Speaker 1: the widow of a naval officer who lived at Brest,
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  Speaker 1: and gave young Raoul a taste for the sea. The
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  Speaker 1: lad entered the boord A training ship, finished his course
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  Speaker 1: with honors, and quietly made his trip round the world.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks to powerful influence, he had just been appointed a
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  Speaker 1: member of the official expedition on board the Wrekin, which
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  Speaker 1: was to be sent to the Arctic Circle in search
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  Speaker 1: of the survivors of the d'Artois expedition, of whom nothing
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  Speaker 1: had been heard for three years. Meanwhile, he was enjoying
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  Speaker 1: a long fertile which would not be over for six months,
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  Speaker 1: and already the dowagers of the Faubourg Saint Germain were
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  Speaker 1: pitying the handsome and apparently delicate stripling for the hard
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  Speaker 1: work in store for him. The shyness of the sailor
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  Speaker 1: lad I was almost saying his innocence was remarkable. He
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  Speaker 1: seemed to have but just left the women's apron strings.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, Petted as he was by
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  Speaker 1: his two sisters and his old aunt, he had retained
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  Speaker 1: from this purely feminine education manners that were almost candid
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  Speaker 1: and stamped with a charm that nothing had yet been
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  Speaker 1: able to Sully. He was a little over twenty one
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  Speaker 1: years of age, had looked eighteen. He had a small,
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  Speaker 1: fair mustache, beautiful blue eyes, and a complexion like a girl's.
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  Speaker 1: Philippe spoiled Raoul to begin with. He was very proud
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  Speaker 1: of him and pleased to see a glorious career for
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  Speaker 1: his junior in the navy, in which one of their ancestors,
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  Speaker 1: the famous Changnyee de la Roche, had held the rank
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  Speaker 1: of admiral. He took advantage of the young man's leave
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  Speaker 1: of absence to show him Paris with all its luxurious
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  Speaker 1: and artistic delights. The Count considered that at Raoul's age,
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  Speaker 1: it is not good to be too good. Philippe himself
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  Speaker 1: had a character that was very well balanced in work
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  Speaker 1: and pleasure alike. His demeanor was always faultless, and he
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  Speaker 1: was incapable of setting his brother a bad example. He
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  Speaker 1: took him with him wherever he went. He even introduced
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  Speaker 1: him to the foyer of the Ballet. I know that
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  Speaker 1: the Count was said to be on terms with Sorelli,
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  Speaker 1: but it could hardly be reckoned as a crime for
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  Speaker 1: this nobleman, a bachelor with plenty of leisure, especially since
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  Speaker 1: his sisters were settled to come and spend an hour
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  Speaker 1: or two after dinner in the company of a dancer who,
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  Speaker 1: though not so very very witty, had the finest eyes
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  Speaker 1: that ever were seen. And besides, there are places where
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  Speaker 1: a true Parisian, when he has the rank of the
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  Speaker 1: Comte de de Chaigne, is bound to show himself, and
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  Speaker 1: at that time the foyer of the ballet at the
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  Speaker 1: opera was one of those places. Lastly, Philippe would perhaps
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  Speaker 1: not have taken his brother behind the scenes of the
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  Speaker 1: opera if Raoul had not been the first to ask him,
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  Speaker 1: repeatedly renewing his request with a gentle obstinacy, which the
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  Speaker 1: Count remembered at a later date. On that evening, Felippe,
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  Speaker 1: after applauding the day, turned to Raoul and saw that
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  Speaker 1: he was quite pale. Don't you see, said Raoul. But
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  Speaker 1: the woman's fainting. You look like fainting yourself, said the Count.
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  Speaker 1: What's the matter. But Raoul had recovered himself and was
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  Speaker 1: standing up. Let's go and see, he said. She never
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  Speaker 1: sang like that before. The Count gave his brother a
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  Speaker 1: curious smiling glance, and seemed quite pleased. They were soon
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  Speaker 1: at the door leading from the house to the stage.
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  Speaker 1: Numbers of subscribers were slowly making their way through. Raoul
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  Speaker 1: tore his gloves without knowing what he was doing, and
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  Speaker 1: Filippe had much too kind a heart to laugh at
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  Speaker 1: him for his impatience. But he now understood why Raoul
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  Speaker 1: was absent minded when spoken to, and why he always
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  Speaker 1: tried to turn every conversation to the subject of the opera.
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  Speaker 1: They reached the stage and pushed through the crowd of gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: scene shifters, supers and chorus girls, Raoul leading the way,
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  Speaker 1: feeling that his heart no longer belonged to him, his
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  Speaker 1: face set with passion, while Count philipp Ay followed him
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  Speaker 1: with difficulty and continued to smile. At the back of
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  Speaker 1: the stage, Raoul had to stop before the inrush of
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  Speaker 1: the little troop of ballet girls, who blocked the passage
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  Speaker 1: which he was trying to enter. More than one chafing
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  Speaker 1: phrase darted from little made up lips, to which he
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  Speaker 1: did not reply, and at last he was able to
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  Speaker 1: pass and dived into the semi darkness of a corridor,
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  Speaker 1: ringing with the name of Day Day. The Count was
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  Speaker 1: surprised to find that Raoul knew the way, he had
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  Speaker 1: never taken him to Christine's himself, and came to the
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  Speaker 1: conclusion that Raoul must have gone there alone while the
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  Speaker 1: Count stayed talking in the foyer with Sorelli, who often
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  Speaker 1: asked him to wait until it was her time to
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  Speaker 1: go on, and sometimes handed him the little gaiters in
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  Speaker 1: which she ran down from her dressing room to preserve
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  Speaker 1: the spotlessness of her satin dancing shoes and her flesh
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  Speaker 1: colored tides. Sorelli had an excuse she had lost her mother.
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  Speaker 1: Postponing his usual visit to Sorelli for a few minutes,
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  Speaker 1: the Count followed his brother down the passage that led
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  Speaker 1: to Day's dressing room and saw that it had never
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  Speaker 1: been so crammed as on that evening, when the ulhouse
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  Speaker 1: seemed excited by her success and also by her fainting fit,
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  Speaker 1: for the girl had not yet come too, and the
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  Speaker 1: doctor of the theater had just arrived at the moment
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  Speaker 1: when Raoul entered at his heels. Christine therefore received the
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  Speaker 1: first aid of the one, while opening her eyes in
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  Speaker 1: the arms of the other. The Count and many more
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  Speaker 1: remained crowding in the doorway. Don't you think doctor that
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  Speaker 1: those gentlemen had better clear the room, asked Raoul. Coolly,
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  Speaker 1: there's no breathing here. You're quite right, said the doctor,
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  Speaker 1: and he sent every one away except Raoul and the maid,
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  Speaker 1: who looked at Raoul with eyes of the most undisguised astonishment.
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  Speaker 1: She had never seen him before and yet dared not
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  Speaker 1: question him, and the doctor imagined that the young man
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  Speaker 1: was only acting as he did because he had the
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  Speaker 1: right too. The Viscount therefore remained in the room, watching
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  Speaker 1: Christine as she slowly returned to life, while even the
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  Speaker 1: joint managers, Debienne and Pouligner, who had come to off
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  Speaker 1: their sympathy and congratulations, found themselves thrust into the passage
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  Speaker 1: among the crowd of dandies. The Comte de de Schaigni,
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  Speaker 1: who was one of those standing outside, laughed, oh, oh,
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  Speaker 1: the brogue, the brogue, and he added under his breath,
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  Speaker 1: those youngsters with their school girl airs. So he's a
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  Speaker 1: shigne after all. He turned to go to Sorelli's dressing room,
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  Speaker 1: but met her on the way with her little troop
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  Speaker 1: of trembling ballet girls. As we have seen. Meanwhile, Christine
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  Speaker 1: day uttered a deep sigh, which was answered by a groan.
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  Speaker 1: She turned her head and saw Raoul and started. She
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  Speaker 1: looked at the doctor, on whom she bestowed a smile,
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  Speaker 1: then at her maid, then at Raoul again. Monsieur, she said,
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  Speaker 1: in a voice not much above a whisper. Who are you, mademoiselle,
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  Speaker 1: replied the young man, kneeling on one knee and pressing
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  Speaker 1: a fervent kiss on the diver's hand. I am the
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  Speaker 1: little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf.
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  Speaker 1: Christine again looked at the doctor and the maid, and
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  Speaker 1: all three began to laugh. Raoul turned very red and
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  Speaker 1: stood up. Mademoiselle. He said, since you are pleased not
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  Speaker 1: to recognize me, I should like to say something to
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  Speaker 1: you in private, something very important. When I am better,
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  Speaker 1: do you mind, and her voice shook. You have been
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  Speaker 1: very good. Yes, you must go, said the doctor, with
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  Speaker 1: his pleasantest smile. Leave me to attend to the mademoiselle.
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  Speaker 1: I am not ill now, said Christine. Suddenly, with strange
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  Speaker 1: and unexpected energy, she rose and passed her hand over
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  Speaker 1: her eyelids. Thank you, doctor, I should like to be alone.
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  Speaker 1: Please go away, all of you leave me. I feel
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  Speaker 1: very restless this evening. The doctor tried to make a
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  Speaker 1: short protest, but perceiving the girl's evident agitation, he thought
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  Speaker 1: the best remedy was not to thwart her, and he
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  Speaker 1: went away, saying to Raoul outside, she is not herself
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  Speaker 1: to she was usually so gentle. Then he said good night,
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  Speaker 1: and Raoul was left alone. The whole of this part
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  Speaker 1: of the theater was now deserted. The farewell ceremony was,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt taking place in the foyer of the ballet.
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  Speaker 1: Raoul thought that Day might go to it, and he
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  Speaker 1: waited in the silent solitude, even hiding in the favoring
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  Speaker 1: shadow of a doorway. He felt a terrible pain at
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  Speaker 1: his heart, and it was of this that he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to speak to Day without delay. Suddenly, the dressing room
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  Speaker 1: door opened and the maid came out by herself, carrying bundles.
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  Speaker 1: He stopped her and asked how her mistress was. The
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  Speaker 1: woman laughed and said that she was quite well, but
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  Speaker 1: that he must not disturb her, for she wished to
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  Speaker 1: be left alone, and she passed on. One idea alone
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  Speaker 1: filled Raoul's burning brain. Of course, Day wished to be
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  Speaker 1: left alone for him, had he not told her that
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to speak to her privately. Hardly breathing, he
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  Speaker 1: went up to the dressing room, and, with his ear
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  Speaker 1: to the to catch a reply, prepared to knock, but
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  Speaker 1: his hand dropped. He had heard a man's voice in
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  Speaker 1: the dressing room saying, in a curiously masterful tone, Christine,
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  Speaker 1: you must love me. And Christine's voice, infinitely sad and
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  Speaker 1: trembling as though accompanied by tears, replied, how can you
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  Speaker 1: talk like that when I sing only for you? Raoul
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  Speaker 1: leaned against the panel to ease his pain. His heart,
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  Speaker 1: which had seemed gone forever, returned to his breast and
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  Speaker 1: was throbbing loudly. The whole passe echoed with its beating,
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  Speaker 1: and Raoul's ears were deafened. Surely, if his heart continued
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  Speaker 1: to make such a noise, they would hear it inside,
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  Speaker 1: They would open the door, and the young man would
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  Speaker 1: be turned away in disgrace. What a position for a
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  Speaker 1: shon yee to be caught listening behind a door. He
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  Speaker 1: took his heart in his two hands to make it stop.
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  Speaker 1: The man's voice spoke again, are you very tired? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: To night I gave you my soul, and I am dead.
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  Speaker 1: Christine replied, your soul is a beautiful thing. Child replied
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  Speaker 1: the grave man's voice, and I thank you. No emperor
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  Speaker 1: ever received so fair a gift. The angels wept to night.
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  Speaker 1: Raoul heard nothing after that. Nevertheless, he did not go away,
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  Speaker 1: But as though he feared lest he should be caught,
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  Speaker 1: he returned to his dark corner, determined to wait for
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  Speaker 1: the man to leave the room. At one and the
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  Speaker 1: same time, he had learned what love meant and hatred.
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  Speaker 1: He knew that he loved, he wanted to know whom
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  Speaker 1: he hated. To his great astonishment, the door opened and
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  Speaker 1: Christine Day appeared, wrapped in furs, with her face hidden
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  Speaker 1: in a lace veil. Alone. She closed the door behind her,
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  Speaker 1: but Raoul observed that she did not lock it. She
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  Speaker 1: passed him. He did not even follow her with his eyes,
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  Speaker 1: for his eyes were fixed on the door, which did
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  Speaker 1: not open again. When the passage was once more deserted,
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  Speaker 1: he crossed it, opened the door of the dressing room,
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  Speaker 1: went in, and shut the door. He found himself in
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  Speaker 1: absolute darkness. The gas had been turned out. There is
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  Speaker 1: some one here, said Raoul, with his back against the
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  Speaker 1: closed door in a quivering voice, what are you hiding? For?
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  Speaker 1: All was darkness and silence. Raoul heard only the sound
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  Speaker 1: of his own breathing. He quite failed to see that
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  Speaker 1: the indiscretion of his conduct was exceeding all bounds. You
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  Speaker 1: shan't leave this until I let you, he exclaimed. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't answer, you are a coward. But I'll exposure
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  Speaker 1: and he struck a match. The blaze lit up the room.
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  Speaker 1: There was no one in the room. Raoul, first turning
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  Speaker 1: the key in the door, lit the gas jats. He
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  Speaker 1: went into the dressing closet, opened the cupboards, hunted about,
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  Speaker 1: felt the walls with his moist hands. Nothing look here,
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  Speaker 1: he said aloud. I am going mad. He stood for
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes, listening to the gas flaring in the silence
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  Speaker 1: of the empty room. Lover though he was, he did
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  Speaker 1: not even think of stealing a ribbon that would have
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  Speaker 1: given him the perfume of the woman he loved. He
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  Speaker 1: went out, not knowing what he was doing nor where
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  Speaker 1: he was going. At a given moment in his wayward progress,
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  Speaker 1: an icy draft struck him in the face. He found
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  Speaker 1: himself at the bottom of a staircase, down which behind
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  Speaker 1: him a procession of workmen were carrying a sort of
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  Speaker 1: stretcher covered with a white sheet. Which is the way out, please,
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  Speaker 1: he asked one of the men. Straight in front of you,
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  Speaker 1: the door is opened, but let us pass. Pointing to
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  Speaker 1: the stretcher, he asked mechanically, Oh, what's that. The workman answered,
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  Speaker 1: that is Joseph Bouquet, who was found in the third cellar,
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  Speaker 1: hanging between a farm house and a scene from the
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  Speaker 1: Roy de la Hore. He took off his hat, fell
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  Speaker 1: back to make room for the procession, and went out.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter two.