fdelopera:Happy Holidays to my POTO Secret Santa giftee, sweetmusicsthrone!This is gift #1. Gift #2
fdelopera:Happy Holidays to my POTO Secret Santa giftee, sweetmusicsthrone!This is gift #1. Gift #2 is here.Sweetmusicsthrone told me that she was partial to Leroux’s Phantom, and that Erik’s final speech to the Persian in “The End of the Phantom’s Love Story” was her favorite part of the novel (a girl after my own heart!). So I have translated the Gaulois version of this text (with a couple of lines added from the 1st Edition, highlighted in bold).Have a lovely holiday, and enjoy!——The Persian, despairing of ever being heard, then began writing. Seeing as the justice system was not interested in his testimony, perhaps the press would pick it up, and one evening, just as he was writing the last line of the account that I have faithfully related here, his servant Darius announced the arrival of a stranger who had not given his name, whose face was concealed, and who had stated simply that he would not leave until he had spoken with the Daroga.The Persian, guessing straightaway the identity of this unusual visitor, ordered that he be shown in at once.The Daroga was not mistaken.It was the Phantom! It was Erik!Read More -- source link
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