Excerpt from Love-Letters of a Worldly Woman These be three women who loved the world: not meaning (at least two of them) the pomps and vanities, but the round world itself and the people who belong to it. All had the bandage lifted from their eyes, and as they became wise proved how sad a thing is wisdom. The first tried to comfort herself with dreams and waits hoping that they will find their way into the waking-hours. The second played an eager, restless game, staking all her happiness on it; and perhaps gained most when she had lost it. The third looked up at sorrow, and, seeing a little way beyond, set out on a journey; but she does not know yet where it will end. And the moral is - but. 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.