Produced by Suzanne Shell, Virginia Paque, Anuradha Valsa,
and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders
THE CORDS OF VANITY
A Comedy of Shirking
Revised and Expanded Edition
by JAMES BRANCH CABELL
with INTRODUCTION by WILSON FOLLETT
To
GABRIELLE BROOKE MONCURE
Plus sapit vulgus, quia tantum, quantum opus est, sapit.