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The Cords of Vanity
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Title: The Cords of Vanity
Author: James Branch Cabell et al
Release Date: January, 2006 [EBook #9608] [This file was first posted on October 9, 2003]
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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._
AN INTRODUCTION
by Wilson Follett
Mr. Cabell, in making ready thi