To disembroil the chronological muddle of Roxana, and follow out the tangles of the hide-and-seek of that most unpleasant "lady of pleasure" and her daughter, may suit some.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
Let him but decently disembroil himself, Scramble from out the scrape nor move the mud,- We solid ones may risk a finger-stretch!
"Dramatic Technique"
George Pierce Baker