Never will the reader forget the sardonic Scaramouche, who fights equally well with tongue and rapier, who was “born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.” GROSSET & DUNLAP, _Publishers_, NEW YORK TRANSCRIBER NOTES Misspelled words and printer errors have been corrected. Where multiple spellings occur, majority use has been employed. Punctuation has been maintained except where obvious printer errors occur.