Twenty Years After · Reading edition

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Chapter XIX · Pâtés made by the Successor of Father Marteau are described.

Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet

This poire d’angoisse was a famous gag, in the form of a pear, which, being thrust into the mouth, by the aid of a spring, dilated, so as to distend the jaws to their greatest width.

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“Two poniards, a knotted rope and a poire d’angoisse.” *

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Note *Chapter XIX · Pâtés made by the Successor of Father Marteau are described.

Note *
Chapter XIX · Pâtés made by the Successor of Father Marteau are described.