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Produced by Suzanne Shell, Virginia Paque, Anuradha Valsa,

and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders

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.

by Wilson Follett

Mr. Cabell, in making ready this second or intended edition of THE CORDS OF VANITY, performs an perform of reclamation which is at the same moment an act of fresh creation.

For the purely reclamatory aspect of what he has done, his reward (so far as that can consist in anything save the doing) must come from insignificantly scant directions; so few indeed that he, with a wrily humorous exaggeration, affects to believe them remarkable. The author of this novel has been pleased to describe the writer of this introduction as "the only known purchaser of the book" and, further, as "the other person to own a CORDS OF VANITY". I could readily enough acquit myself, with good sound legal proofs, of any such singularity as stands charged in this mild impeachment—and that without appeal to The Cleveland Plain Dealer of eleven years ago ("slushy and di