Gaston Leroux

He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

pair of wonderfully serene blue eyes. Mercier, the acting–manager, called the

The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination

, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade.

the girl with eyes black as sloes, hair black as ink

The ghost had appeared to them in the shape of a gentleman in dress–clothes, who had suddenly stood before them in the passage, without their knowing where he came from. He seemed to have come straight through the wall.

But you love Christine Daae, do you not?"

"I worship the ground she stands on!

old men of the highest respectability

At the Conservatoire, she had been no more than a mechanical, soulless voice. Then, all of a sudden, she had woken up, as if she had been breathed on by the divine afflatus. The Angel of Music had come to her

Tears sprang to her eyes… she wept, was saved and remained thereafter convinced that her husband had come