W. Somerset Maugham
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And he went right on from bad to worse.
Until the last I heard of him, he was in the state legislature.
Elected by Democratic votes.
You never saw anybody take on, as his poor old mother did, when she heard about it.
Hank, said she to the boy's father, who was forging a banknote in the chimney corner, this all comes on not educating him when he was a baby.
If he'd learnt spelling and cipherin', he never could have been elected.
It pains me to state that old Hank.
didn't seem to get any thinner under the family disgrace, and his appetite never left him for a minute.
The fact is the old gentleman wanted to go to the United States Senate.
End of chapter twenty
Chapter twenty one of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beerce.
This Libravox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by april six zero nine zero
A Kansas incidentally
An invalid wife in Leavenworth
heard her husband make proposals of marriage to the nurse.
The dying woman arose in bed, fixed her large black eyes for a moment upon the face of her heartless spouse with a reproachful intensity that must haunt him through life, and then fell back a corpse.
The remorse of that widower, as he led the blushing nurse to the altar the next week, can be more easily imagined than described.
Such reparation as was in his power he made, he buried the first wife decently, and very deep down, playing a handsome and exceedingly heavy stone upon the sepulchre.
He chisel upon the stone the following simple and touching line She can't get back.
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