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New Year's Eve 1895 and a day's visit to her mother separates a new wife and her husband for the first time. He has made a New Year's Resolution to give up cigars but is weakened by a bachelor friend and 25 cigars inside a false book cover given him by his wife. He learns a lesson when he gives in to temptation [title of the false book, Charles Reade's 'A Terrible Temptation'] lights a cigar and it explodes. (PB)
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