THE EMBLEMS OF
FIDELITY
A Comedy in Letters
BY
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
CLAUDE MULLEN . . . Fashionable nerve-specialist, friend of George Marigold
RUFUS KENT . . . Long-winded president of a club
NOAH CHAMBERLAIN . . . Very learned, very absent-minded professor
PHILLIPS AND FAULDS . . . Florists
BURNS AND BRUCE . . . Florists
JUDD AND JUDD . . . Florists
ANDY PETERS . . . Florist
HODGE . . . Stupid gardener of Edward Blackthorne
TILLY SNOWDEN . . . Dangerous sweetheart of Beverley Sands
POLLY BOLES . . . Dangerous sweetheart of Benjamin Doolittle, friend of Tilly Snowden
CLARA LOUISE CHAMBERLAIN . . . Very devoted, very proud sensitive daughter of Noah Chamberlain
ANNE RAEBURN . . . Protective secretary of Edward Blackthorne
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