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"Oh, Christine," said Raoul, "ht at every

accent of your voice I saw the tears strea, sing like that while crying?"

"I felt ," said Christine, "I closed my eyes When I

opened them, you were by my side But the voice was there also, Raoul!

I was afraid for your sake and again I would not recognize you and

began to laugh when you reminded me that you had picked upthe voice!The voice

recognized you and the voice was jealous!It said that, if I did

not love you, I would not avoid you, but treat you like any other old

friend It made me scene upon scene At last, I said to the voice,

'That will do! I arave, and I shall ask M Raoul de Chagny to go with me' 'Do as you

please,' replied the voice, 'but I shall be at Perros too, for I am

wherever you are, Christine; and, if you are still worthy of me, if you

have not lied to me, I will play you The Resurrection of Lazarus, on

the stroke of ht, on your father's tomb and on your father's

violin' That, dear, was how I caht you to Perros How could I have been so beguiled? Hoas it,

when I saw the personal, the selfish point of view of the voice, that I

did not suspect soer !"

"But, after all," cried Raoul, "you soon came to know the truth! Why

did you not at once rid yourself of that abohththtmare until the day when I learned the

truth!Pitywhen Carlotta thought that she had been turned into a toad on

the stage and when the house was suddenly plunged in darkness through