The Emblems of Fidelity: A Comedy in Letters

A Comedy in Letters
JAMES LANE ALLEN
AUTHOR OF THE KENTUCKY CARDINAL, THE KENTUCKY WARBLER, ETC.
There is nothing so ill-bred as audible laughter.... I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason nobody has ever heard me laugh. —Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son.
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1919
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
To THE SPIRIT OF COMEDY INCOMPARABLE ALLY OF VICTORY
LIST OF CHARACTERS
EDWARD BLACKTHORNE . . . Famous elderly English novelist
BEVERLEY SANDS . . . Rising young American novelist
BENJAMIN DOOLITTLE . . . Practical lawyer, friend of Beverley Sands
GEORGE MARIGOLD . . . Fashionable physician