paranquet

Updated: July 7, 2025

But I was somewhat dashed when, a day or two later, Mr. Smith came up to me again, in much less buoyant spirits. "I made a mistake about that scene," he said. "They tell me it's the end of the last act I thought it was the end of the first!" Alexandre Dumas fils, in his preface to Héloïse Paranquet, condemns the duel as a dramatic expedient.

William Archer - Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship