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away .. and I kissed her on the forehead! Oh, how good it is to papers. This was his way of thanking the daroga for the kindness
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kiss somebody on the forehead! My mother, daroga, my poor, the Persian had once shown him. These papers had been written
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unhappy mother never .. let me kiss her .. She used to run by Christine for Raoul, but she had left them with Erik with a
away .. and throw me my mask! There has never been any other few other small things. Erik said that the two had gone, intending
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woman .. ever, ever! My happiness was so great, I cried. I fell at to be married. He asked the Persian to inform the young couple
her feet, crying .. and I kissed her feet ... her little feet ... of his death when he received Christine's papers, and to advertise
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crying .. You're crying, too, daroga!" it in the Epoque.
The Persian could not hold back his tears as he looked at that Darius helped Erik down to the street. A taxi was waiting for
masked man, who was holding his heart and crying with pain him. The Persian, who was at the window, heard Erik say, "Go to
and love at the same time. the Opera."
"Her tears fell on my forehead and they mixed with my And the taxi drove off into the night.
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tears .. Listen, daroga, listen to what I did! .. I tore off my mask The Persian had seen the poor, unfortunate Erik for the last
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and she did not run away! .. And she did not die! .. We cried time. Three weeks later, a notice in the Epoque read: "Erik is dead."
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together! I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer!
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While I was at her feet I heard her say, 'Poor, unhappy Erik!'...
And she took my hand! .. I held in my hand a ring, a plain gold It is now impossible to deny that the Phantom of the Opera did
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ring which I had given her .. and she had lost .. and which I exist. There is so much proof of his existence that we can follow
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found again .. I slipped it into her little hand and said, 'There! Erik's actions logically through the whole tragedy of the
Take it! Take it for you .. and him! It will be my wedding Chagnys.
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present from your poor, unhappy Erik! I know you love the boy!' The case greatly excited the capital, and Christine Daae was
... She asked me what I meant... I told her she could marry the represented as a poor girl caught between two brothers. Nobody
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young man .. because she had cried with me and mixed her suspected what really happened; nobody understood that
tears with mine! I freed the young man .. He and Christine Christine and Raoul had disappeared in order to enjoy a
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kissed in front of me .. I made Christine swear to come back, happiness which they did not want to make public after the
one night, when I was dead, crossing the lake from the Rue mysterious death of Count Philippe. They went to Scandinavia —
Scribe side, and to bury me with the gold ring, which she would and maybe Madame Valerius, who disappeared at the same time,
wear until that moment .. I told her where she would find my joined them there.
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body and what to do with it .. Then Christine kissed me, for The newspapers continued to try to understand the mystery
the first time, herself, here, on the forehead, and they went off long after the unintelligent detective Faure gave up. Only the
together .. Daroga, if Christine keeps her promise, she will come Persian knew the whole truth and held the main proofs which he
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back soon!" received from Erik just before his death. I had the job of
Before he left, Erik told the daroga that when he felt that his completing those proofs, and the daroga directed my inquiries. He
end was very near, he would send him all of Christine Daae's told me where to gather information, who to speak to.

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