W. Somerset Maugham
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first heard Sep 2026
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W. Somerset Maugham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There I do not entirely agree with you, rejoined the young man, composing his body upon a stump for a philosophical argument.
I don't neither, added the old one, absently.
screwing about on the edge of the barrel and constructing a painful grimace, there was no argument but a silence instead.
Suddenly the aged party sprang off that barrel with exceeding great haste, as if one who has made up his mind to do a thing and is impatient of delay.
The seat of his trousers was steaming grandly, the barrel upset.
And there was a great wash of hot water.
Leaving a deposit of spotted pig.
In life that pig had belonged to Mr Scoliver the younger.
Mr Sculliver the younger was angry, but remembering Jefferson's maxim, he rattled off the number ten.
Finishing up with you thief.
Then perceiving himself very angry, he began all over again, and ran up to one hundred, as a monkey scampers up a ladder.
As the last syllable shot from his lips, he planted a dreadful blow between the old man's eyes, with a shriek that sounded like you son of a sea cook.
Mr Sculliver the elder went down like a stricken beef, and his son often afterward explained that if he had not counted a hundred and so given himself time to get thoroughly mad, he would
He did not believe he could have ever licked the old man.
End of chapter eleven
Chapter twelve of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beerce.
This Liebervox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
Mr Hunker's Mourner.
Strolling through Lone Mountain Cemetery one day, my attention was arrested by the inconsolable grief of a granite angel bewailing the loss of Jacob Hunker, aged sixty seven.
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