W. Somerset Maugham
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The lady maintained her attitude, but with momentally increasing impatience, which found expression in singular wave like undulations of her lith figure.
and an occasional unmistakable contortion.
Several gentlemen approached, but were successively and politely dismissed.
Suddenly she experienced a quick convulsion, strode sharply forward one step, stopped short, had another convulsion, and walked rapidly away.
Approaching the spot I found a small iron grating in the sidewalk, and between the bars two little boot heels, riven from their kindred soles, and unsightly with snaggy nails.
Heaven only knows why that entrapped female had declined the proffered assistance of her species, why she had elected to ruin her boots in preference to having them removed from her feet.
Upon that day when the grave shall give up its dead.
And the secrets of all hearts shall be revealed.
I shall know all about it, but I want to know now.
End of section nine
Chapter ten of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beerce.
This Lieberbox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
A tail of two feet.
My friend Zacharias was accustomed to sleep with a heated stone at his feet.
For the feet of Mr Zacharias were as the feet of the dead.
One night he retired as usual.
And it chanced that he awoke some hours afterwards with a well-defined smell of burning leather, making it pleasant for his nostrils.
Mrs.
Zacharias, said he, nudging his snoring spouse, I wish you would get up and look about.
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