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"You don't answer!" he said angrily and unhappily. "Well, I send him to you.' Well, Raoul, my father is in Heaven and I have
will answer for you. It was because there was someone in the been visited by the Angel of Music. He comes to my dressing
room, Christine. Someone who you did not wish to know thai room to give me lessons daily."
you could be interested in anyone else!" "In your dressing room?" he repeated.
"What are you saying? Who are you referring to?" "Yes, that is where you heard him."
"To the man you spoke to and said, 'I sing only for you "I? I heard the Angel of Music?"
Tonight I gave you my soul and I am dead.'"' "He was the one who was talking when you were listening
"Then you were listening behind the door?" behind the door. But I thought I was the only one to hear his
.
.
"Yes, because I love you .. And I heard everything .." voice. Imagine how surprised I was this morning when you told
"You heard what?" she asked, becoming strangely calm. me that you could hear him too."
"He said to you,'Christine, you must love me!'" Raoul burst out laughing, which made Christine very angry.
Suddenly, she looked very unwell. Raoul rushed to catch her She said, "If you had opened the door, you would have seen that
before she fainted, but she quickly recovered. there was nobody in the room!"
"Tell me all that you heard," she said. "That's true! I did open the door, when you were gone, and I
"I heard him say, 'Your soul is a beautiful thing, child, and I found no one in the room."
thank you. No king ever received such a fair gift. The angels in "Well?"
Heaven cried tonight.'" The viscount answered, "Well, Christine, I think that somebody
Christine's hand covered her heart and her eyes stared ahead is making fun of you."
like a madwoman's. Raoul was struck with terror. She cried out angrily and ran away. He ran after her, but she
"Christine!" The young man tried to take her in his arms, but shouted, "Leave me! Leave me!" and she disappeared.
she escaped and ran away. Raoul returned to the Setting Sun, feeling very sad and tired.
Raoul did not know what to do. The hours that he had hoped Christine had gone to her room and would not speak to him. He
to spend with the young girl slipped past. She stayed in her room went to bed and tried to sleep. There was no sound from
and would not dine with him. Later that evening, he went to the Christine's room.
graveyard, then climbed the hill and sat down. He looked out However, about eleven-thirty, he heard her leave her room,
over the sea, and was surrounded by icy darkness, but he did not and he heard her speaking to someone downstairs. He looked
feel the cold. Hearing a noise, he turned and saw Christine out of the window and watched her leave. He climbed down the
coming toward him! tree outside his bedroom window and went after her.
.
"Raoul, I have decided to tell you something very serious .. The next morning he was brought back, more dead than alive.
Do you remember the story of the Angel of Music?" He had been found stretched out on the steps of the little church.
"Of course, I do," he said. "I believe your father first told it to The owner of the Setting Sun took him in and immediately ran for
us here." Christine. They did their best to help him and he soon opened his
"And here he said, 'When I am in Heaven, my child, I will eyes. When he saw his friend's charming face, he recovered quickly.

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