W. Somerset Maugham
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
W. Somerset Maugham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so she spoke of the vine and folded cottage in which she fondly hoped they might soon sit together, the conjugal sweets.
William became rigidly erect, a look not of earth was in his face.
His breast heaved, and the firepover quivered with emotion.
William felt deeply.
Mine own, said the good woman, now busily irrigating a massive snowy dough for the evening meal.
Do you know that there is not a bite of meat in the house?
It is a cold, unlovely truth, a sad, heart sickening fact, but it must be told by the conscientious novelist.
William repaid all this affectionate solicitude, all this womanly devotion, all this trust, confidence, and abnegation, in a manner that needs not to be particularly specified.
A short, sharp curve in the middle of that iron fire poker is eloquent of a wrong redressed.
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Chapter eight of the Friends Delight by Ambrose Beerce.
This Librevox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
Little Isaac.
Mr Gopwaddle came home from a meeting of the Temperance Legion extremely drunk.
He went to the bed, piled himself loosely atop of it, and forgot his identity.
About the middle of the night his wife, who was sitting up darning stockings, heard a voice from the profoundest depths of the bolster say Jane
Jane gave a vicious stab with the needle, impaling one of her fingers, and continued her work.
There was a long silence, faintly punctuated by the bark of a distant dog.
Again that voice Say Jane
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