Excerpt from The Bride and the Burglar: A Comedy in One Act Bride. Of course not! I love nature! Besides. I am going to have all my girl friends out every week-end! They are terribly anxious to feel how it Seems to be waked up by the song of crickets. Groom. You beautiful thing! We'll introduce 'em to hoeing, and picking june bugs; and maybe they will like it so well, you'll get all your friends to marry and build nice little bungalows next door to ours. Bride. Not that close! I mean to devote all my life hereafter to you alone, darling. Groom. Sweetheart! (they embrace.) Our lives will be one continuous honeymoon. As we sit together beside the open fire I shall tell you over and over again that you are the sweetest, the dear est, most beautiful, most adorable girl in all the world! 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.