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'"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress and Sexton Blake", recalled upholsterer's son Herbert Hodge. "All four were simply exciting stories".'
'Inspired by the novels of Baroness Orczy about the Scarlet Pimpernel, I wrote a piece about Robespierre. O Robespierre, thou sea-green immobile, Thy soul, deep-stained, was ice and did not feel...'