Irresistible Dumas

So the prompt was to write an assignation that takes place in a scene from a movie or novel. And I picked Dumas' Three Musketeers, for the scene with the diamond studs at the dance. ("Rendezvous Between the Covers")

But having read through the scene and gotten what I needed for the poem, I found myself compelled to re-read the whole book...

It's like that with Dumas. It's like that with Dickens.

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