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The Story Through Its Notes, Letters, and Documents Prologue Moncharmin’s Memoirs of a Manager Gaston Leroux’s description: ‘light and frivolous work of the too-skeptical Moncharmin.’ Gaston Leroux’s impression of Christine’s letters ‘I was at first inclined to be suspicious; but when the Persian had told me, with child-like candor, all that he knew about the ghost and had handed me the proofs of the ghost’s existence-including the strange correspondence of Christine Daae-to do as I pleased with, I was no longer able to doubt. No, the ghost was not a myth!’ To Gaston Leroux by General D--- ‘Sir: I can not urge you too strongly to publish the results of your inquiry. I remember perfectly that, a few weeks before the disappearance of the great singer, Christine Daae, and the tragedy which threw the whole of the Faubourg Saint-Germain into mourning, there was a great deal of talk, in the foyer of the ballet, on the subject of the “ghost;” and I believe that it only ceased to be discussed in consequence of the later affair that excited us all so greatly. But, if it be possible-as, after hearing you, I believe-to explain the tragedy through the ghost, then I beg you, sir, to talk to us about the ghost again. Mysterious though the ghost may at first appear, he will always be more easily explained than the dismal story in which malevolent people have tried to picture two brothers killing each other who had worshiped each other all their lives. Believe me, etc.’ |
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