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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A look of distrust crept into his face and finally settled into a savage scowl about his eyes.
Said you knew her
he faltered menacingly.
So I do, but I'm not upon speaking terms with her, and in fact she declines to recognize me.
The soul of the honest miner flamed out.
He laid his hand threateningly upon his pistol, jerked himself stiff, glared a moment at me, with the look of a tiger, and hurled his question at my head as if it had been an iron interrogation point.
What are you been a doing to that girl?
I fled, and the last I saw the chivalrous gold hunter, he had his arm about Pandora's stony waist, and was endeavoring to soothe her supposed agitation by stroking her granite head.
End of chapter thirteen
Chapter fourteen of the Fiend Delight By Ambrose Beers.
This Librevox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero The Head of the Family
Our story begins with the death of our hero.
The manner of it was decapitation.
The instrument a mowing machine
A young son of the deceased, dumb with horror, seized the paternal head and ran with it to the house.
There ejaculated the young man.
bowling the gory pate across the threshold at his mother's feet.
Look at that, will you?
The old lady adjusted her spectacles, lifted the dripping head into her lap, wiped the face of it with her apron, and gazed into its fishy eyes with tender curiosity.
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