THE EMBLEMS OF FIDELITY
Reading edition
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
CONTENTS
PART SECOND
PART THIRD