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Good evening.

Welcome to SendMeToSleep, the world's sleepiest podcast.

I'm your host, Andrew.

I'm here to help calm your mind and send you into a peaceful night's sleep.

Tonight I'll be reading The Phantom of the Opera, Chapter 5, Box 5 by Gaston Lourou.

So that your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in for a peaceful night's

sleep.

Armand Monsharmin wrote such volumous memoirs during the fairly long period of his co-management

that we may well ask if he ever found time to attend to the affairs of the opera, otherwise

then by telling what went on there.

Monsharmin did not know a note of music.

He dabbled a little in society journalism and enjoyed considerable private income.

Lastly, he was a charming fellow and showed that he was not lacking in intelligence for

as soon as he made up his mind to be a sleeping partner in the opera.

He selected the best possible active manager and went straight to Ferman Richard.

Ferman Richard was a very distinguished composer who had published a number of successful

pieces of all kinds and who liked nearly every form of music and every sort of musician.

Clearly, therefore, it was the duty of every sort of musician to like Monsharmin Richard.

The only thing to be said against him were that he was rather masterful in his ways and

endowed with a very hasty temper.

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