Name: Learn English Through Story ★ Subtitles: The Phantom of the Opera (Level 1)
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‘Quick! Quick! Close the door! It’s him!’

Annie Sorelli ran into the dressing-room, her face white.

One of the girls ran and closed the door, and then they all turned to Annie Sorelli.

‘Who? Where? What’s the matter?’ they cried.

‘In the passage. I saw him. He came through the wall in front of me!

Most of the girls were afraid, but one of them, a tall girl with black hair, laughed.

‘Everybody says they see the Opera ghost, but there isn’t really a ghost.

But she did not open the door, or look into the passage.

‘Lots of people see him,’ a second girl said.

‘Joseph Buquet saw him two days ago. Don’t you remember?’

Then all the girls began to talk at once.

‘Joseph says the ghost is tall and he wears a black evening coat.’

‘He has the head of a dead man, with a yellow face and no nose...’

‘... And no eyes - only black holes!’

Then little Meg Giry spoke for the first time.

‘Don’t talk about him. He doesn’t like it. My mother told me.’

‘Your mother?’ the girl with black hair said.

‘What does your mother know about the ghost?’

‘She says that Joseph Buquet is a fool.

The ghost doesn’t like people talking about him, and one day Joseph Buquet is going to be sorry, very sorry.’

‘But what does your mother know? Tell us, tell us!’ all the girls cried.

‘But please don’t say a word to anyone.

You know my mother is the doorkeeper for some of the boxes in the Opera House.

He watches the operas from that box, and sometimes he leaves flowers for my mother!’

‘The ghost has a box! And leaves flowers in it!’

‘Oh, Meg, your mother’s telling you stories!

‘It’s true, it’s true, I tell you!’ Meg said.

‘Nobody buys tickets for Box 5, but the ghost always comes to it on opera nights.’

‘Why, no!... The ghost comes, but there is nobody there.’

‘But how does your mother know?’ one of them asked.

‘There’s no man in a black evening coat, with a yellow face. That’s all wrong.

My mother never sees the ghost in Box 5, but she hears him!

He talks to her, but there is nobody there!

And he doesn’t like people talking about him!’

But that evening the dancers could not stop talking about the Opera ghost.

They talked before the opera, all through the opera, and after the opera.

But they talked very quietly, and they looked behind them before they spoke.

When the opera finished, the girls went back to their dressing-room.

Suddenly, they heard somebody in the passage, and Madame Giry, Meg’s mother, ran into the room.

She was a fat, motherly woman, with a red, happy face.

‘Oh girls.’ she cried. ‘Joseph Buquet is dead!

You know he works a long way down, on the fourth floor under the stage.

The other stage workers found his dead body there an hour ago - with a rope around his neck!’

‘It’s the ghost!’ cried Meg Giry. ‘The ghost killed him!’

Chapter 2; The directors of the Opera House

The Opera House was famous, and the directors of the Opera House were very important men.

It was the first week of work for the two new directors, Monsieur Armand Moncharmin and Monsieur Firmin Richard.

In the directors’ office the next day, the two men talked about Joseph Buquet.

‘It was an accident,’ Monsieur Armand said angrily.

‘An accident?... Killed himself?’ Monsieur Firmin said.

‘Which story do you want, my friend? Or do you want the story of the ghost?’

‘Don’t talk to me about ghosts!’ Monsieur Armand said.

‘We have 1,500 people working for us in this Opera House, and everybody is talking about the ghost.

They’re all mad! I don’t want to hear about the ghost, OK?’

Monsieur Firmin looked at a letter on the table next to him.

‘And what are we going to do about this letter, Armand?’

‘Why, do nothing, of course! What can we do?’

The two men read the letter again. It wasn’t very long.

Because you are new in the Opera House, I am writing to tell you some important things.

Never sell tickets for Box 5; that is my box for every opera night.

Madame Giry, the doorkeeper, knows all about it.

Also, I need money for my work in the Opera House.

I am not expensive, and I am happy to take only 20,000 francs a month.

That is all. But please remember, I can be a good friend, but a bad enemy. O.G.

‘Don’t sell tickets for Box 5! 20,000 francs a month!’

‘That’s the best box in the Opera House, and we need the money, Firmin!

And who is this O.G., eh? Tell me that!’

‘Opera ghost, of course,’ Monsieur Firmin said.

‘But you’re right, Armand. We can do nothing about this letter.

Somebody thinks we are fools, because we are new here.

There are no ghosts in the Opera House!’

The two men then talked about the opera for that night.

It was Faust, and usually La Carlotta sang Margarita.

La Carlotta was Spanish, and the best singer in Paris.

‘Everybody in Paris is going to be at the opera tonight,’ said Monsieur Armand,

Suddenly! She writes a letter to us just this morning - she is ill, she cannot sing tonight!’

‘Don’t get angry again, Armand,’ Monsieur Firmin said quickly.

‘We have Christine Daae, that young singer from Norway.

She can sing Margarita tonight. She has a good voice.’

‘But she’s so young, and nobody knows her!

Nobody wants to listen to a new singer.’

‘Wait and see. Perhaps Daae can sing better than La Carlotta. Who knows?’

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Learn English Through Story ★ Subtitles: The Phantom of the Opera (Level 1)

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