W. Somerset Maugham
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End of chapter twenty one
Chapter twenty two of the Fiend Delight by Ambrose Beerce This Liebervox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
Some fiction mister Greel's girl
In a lecture about girls, Katie Stanton contrasted the buoyant spirit of young males with the dejected sickliness of immature women.
This, she says, is because the latter are keenly sensitive to the fact that they have no aim in life.
This is a sad, sad truth.
No longer ago than last year, the writer's youngest girl, Gloriana.
A skin milk blonde, concern of fourteen, came pensively up to her father, with big tears in her little eyes, and a forgotten morsel of buttered bread laying unchewed in her mouth.
Papa, murmured the poor thing, I'm getting awfully pokey, and my clothes don't seem to set well in the back.
My days are full of ungratified longings, and my nights don't get any better.
Papa, I think society needs turnin' inside out and scrapin'.
I haven't got nothing to aspire to, no aim nor anything.
The desolate creature spilled herself loosely into a cane bottom chair.
And her sorrow broke like a great dike broken.
The rider lifted her tenderly upon his knee and bit her softly on the neck.
Lorianna, said he, have you chewed up all that toffee in two days?
A smothered sob was her frank confession.
Now see here, Glo, continued the parent, rather sternly.
Don't let me hear any more about aspirations, said
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