Crossword-Solution: DUET 4 letters, 355 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

During the duet with _Ortrude_, and the splendors of the wedding processional, this new feeling grew and grew.

They played a duet from “Zampa,” and at the earnest solicitation of every one present followed it with the overture to “The Poet and the Peasant.” “_Allez vous-en! Sapristi!_” shrieked the parrot outside the door.

How far was I from questioning her unbelief! While the charmingly sincere young man pleaded with her—accompanied by the orchestra in the old ‘Traviata’ duet, ‘misterioso, misterios’ altero!’—she maintained her bitter scepticism, and the curtain fell on her dancing recklessly with the others, after Armand had been sent away with his flower.

Why should we write a duet each saying the same thing? Well, I’m still very confused about it all, and I don’t in the least know what I am going to do--more likely to die on the last plank, than to get into port with my ensign mast-high.

The lovers, after the fashion of amateur actors from time immemorial, “made love like sticks.” Billy, when the dismal thing had dragged its way through the final note, sat “down front,” crying softly in the semi-darkness while she was waiting for Alice Greggory to “run it through just once more” with a pair of tired-faced, fluffy-skirted fairies who could _not_ learn that a duet meant a _duet_--not two solos, independently hurried or retarded as one's fancy for the moment dictated.