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Alas for the demise of honour
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"HE WAS born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world
was mad." Those words, which are the opening sentence of Scaramouche,
the novel by Rafael Sabatini, appeared on screen at the start of the
film version, broadcast by Scottish Television last Thursday, in the
50th anniversary year of the making of this Hollywood swashbuckler.
That striking first sentence, which economically conveys the
psychology of the central character, ranks with other masterly
openings to novels, classic and popular: Dickens's "It was the best
of times, it was the worst of times..."; Jane Austen's epigram "It ...
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