Excerpt from Two Humorous Dialogues: The Premature Proposal and Country or City Peter (astonished. - Oh, don't be foolish You've got on to a new tack, Patience. I've heard all the rest of your talk a hundred times over; but you never said anything before about another wife. Patience (weeping. - It's because I never got wrought up to such a pitch before. But I seem to have had a vision of the state you'll be in, and the ruinous condition of this house and furniture; and it's been made clear to my mind that I ought to see you provided for before I go. It isn't as if I went without warning, Peter. And now I ask you if it would be right for me to die, with my eyes open, as it were, and not know of somebody that is going to take my place? 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.