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The reader knows and guesses the rest It is all in keeping with this

incredible and yet veracious story Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity

him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be "soly! And he had to hide his genius OR

USE IT TO PLAY TRICKS WITH, when, with an ordinary face, he would have

been one of the uished of mankind! He had a heart that

could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to

content himself with a cellar Ah, yes, we must needs pity the Opera

ghost

I have prayed over his ht show hi his crimes Yes, I am sure, quite sure that I prayed

beside his body, the other day, when they took it froraphic records It was his skeleton I

did not recognize it by the ugliness of the head, for allas that, but by the plain gold ring

which he wore and which Christine Daae had certainly slipped on his

finger, when she came to bury hi near the little well, in the place where the