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Excerpt from The Wisdom of the Wise: A Comedy in Three Acts The construction of this comedy rests, it will be seen, on strictly traditional lines. In Act I. The various characters are introduced, their several points of view made clear, and the wheels of the slight - designedly slight - plot are set in motion. In Act II. We have what is known as the nouement, and in the third act, the dénouement. The author's aim was to present, as it were, a little diagram of mischief-making and mischief-makers. It would have been easier to have drawn the sketch in stronger colours, but the result might have been more painful than amusing a tragedy, not a comedy at all. This being the case, it is hoped that those who prefer to be entertained rather than saddened by fiction will find themselves in sympathy with Georgina suffering under advice, and encouraged by the inevitable disagreements of her advisers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.