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The Phantom of the Opera

CHAPTER V The Enchanted Violin
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He hurried to the diligence for Perros-Guirec.

He was the only passenger.

He questioned the driver and learned that, on the evening of the previous day, a young lady who looked like a Parisian had gone to Perros and put up at the inn known as the Setting Sun.
The nearer he drew to her, the more fondly he remembered the story of the little Swedish singer.

Most of the details are still unknown to the public.
There was once, in a little market-town not far from Upsala, a peasant who lived there with his family, digging the earth during the week and singing in the choir on Sundays.

This peasant had a little daughter to whom he taught the musical alphabet before she knew how to read.
Daae's father was a great musician, perhaps without knowing it.


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