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He filled Christine's h the terror hich he inspired

her, but the dear child's heart belonged wholly to the Vicony While they played about, like an innocent engaged couple, on

the upper floors of the Opera, to avoid theover the: to kill the monster, if necessary, and explain to the police

afterward But Erik did not show himself; and I felt none the more

coht that thedriven

from his house by jealousy, would thus enable e in the third cellar It was important, for

everybody's sake, that I should know exactly as inside One day,

tired of waiting for an opportunity, Iat his Don Juan

Triumphant, with every door in his house wide open I knew that this

was the work of his life I was careful not to stir and re, for aabout his place,

like a madman And he said aloud, at the top of his voice: "It must be finished FIRST! Quite finished!"

This speech was not calculated to reassure me and, when the music

recommenced, I closed the stone very softly

On the day of the abduction of Christine Daae, I did not co, tre lest I should hear