The Phantom of the Opera
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Гастон Леру. The Phantom of the Opera
Prologue
Chapter I Is it the Ghost?
Chapter II The New Margarita
Chapter III The Mysterious Reason
Chapter IV Box Five
Chapter V The Enchanted Violin
Chapter VI A Visit to Box Five
Chapter VII Faust and What Followed
Chapter VIII The Mysterious Brougham
Chapter IX At the Masked Ball
Chapter X Forget the Name of the Man's Voice
Chapter XI Above the Trap-Doors
Chapter XII Apollo's Lyre
Chapter XIII A Master-Stroke of the Trap-Door Lover
Chapter XIV The Singular Attitude of a Safety-Pin
Chapter XV Christine! Christine!
Chapter XVI Mme. Giry's Astounding Revelationsas to Her Personal Relations with the Opera Ghost
Chapter XVII The Safety-Pin Again
Chapter XVIII The Commissary, The Viscount and the Persian
Chapter XIX The Viscount and the Persian
Chapter XX In the Cellars of the Opera
Chapter XXI Interesting and Instructive Vicissitudesof a Persian in the Cellars of the Opera
Chapter XXII In the Torture Chamber
Chapter XXIII The Tortures Begin
Chapter XXIV "Barrels! … Barrels! … Any Barrels to Sell?"
Chapter XXV The Scorpion or the Grasshopper: Which?
Chapter XXVI The End of the Ghost's Love Story
Epilogue
The Paris Opera House
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It was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to mark their retirement. Suddenly the dressing-room of La Sorelli, one of the principal dancers, was invaded by half-a-dozen young ladies of the ballet, who had come up from the stage after "dancing" Polyeucte. They rushed in amid great confusion, some giving vent to forced and unnatural laughter, others to cries of terror. Sorelli, who wished to be alone for a moment to "run through" the speech which she was to make to the resigning managers, looked around angrily at the mad and tumultuous crowd. It was little Jammes—the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose-red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders—who gave the explanation in a trembling voice:
"It's the ghost!" And she locked the door.
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"Not so loud!" said Meg. "It's Box Five, you know, the box on the grand tier, next to the stage-box, on the left."
"Oh, nonsense!"
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