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The Phantom of the Opera

CHAPTER XVI Mme
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Mme.

Giry, I am going to have you arrested." The two black feathers on the dingy bonnet, which usually affected the attitude of two notes of interrogation, changed into two notes of exclamation; as for the bonnet itself, it swayed in menace on the old lady's tempestuous chignon.

Surprise, indignation, protest and dismay were furthermore displayed by little Meg's mother in a sort of extravagant movement of offended virtue, half bound, half slide, that brought her right under the nose of M.Richard, who could not help pushing back his chair.
"HAVE ME ARRESTED!" The mouth that spoke those words seemed to spit the three teeth that were left to it into Richard's face.
M.Richard behaved like a hero.

He retreated no farther.

His threatening forefinger seemed already to be pointing out the keeper of Box Five to the absent magistrates.
"I am going to have you arrested, Mme.


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