W. Somerset Maugham
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End of chapter three
Chapter four of the Fiend's Delight By Ambrose Beerce.
This Liebervox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
Some fiction the glad new year.
A poor broken down drunkard returned to his dilapidated domicile early on New Year's morn.
The great bells of the churches were jarring the creamy moonlight which lay above the soggy undercrust of mud and snow.
As he heard their joyous peals, announcing the birth of a new year, his heart smote his old waistcoat like a remorseful sledgehammer.
Why, soliloquized he, should not those bells also proclaim the advent of a new resolution and
I have not made one for several weeks, and it's about time.
I'll swear off.
He did it, and at that moment a new light seemed to be shed upon his pathway.
His wife came out of the house with a tin lantern.
He rushed frantically to meet her.
She saw the new and holy purpose in his eye.
She recognized it readily.
She had seen it before.
They embraced and wept.
Then stretching the wreck of what had once been a manly form to its full length, he raised his eyes to heaven, and one hand as near there as he could get it.
And there in the pale moonlight, with only his wandering wife and the angels, and a cow or two, for witnesses, he swore he would from that moment abstain from all intoxicating liquors until death should they part.
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