W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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John, said she thoughtfully.
Is this yours?
No ma, it ain't none o' mine.
John, continued she with a cold, unimpassioned earnestness, where did you get this thing?
Why, ma, returned the hopeful, that's flaps.
John, and there was just a touch of severity in her voice, when your mother asks you a question, you should answer that particular question.
Where did you get this?
Out in the meadow, then, if you're so durned particular.
retorted the youngster, somewhat piqued.
The mowing machine lopped it off.
The old lady rose and restored the head into the hands of the young man.
Then straightening with some difficulty her aged back, and assuming a matron like dignity of bearing and feature, she emitted the rebuke following.
My son, who
The gentleman whom you hold in your hand, any more pointed allusion to whom would be painful to both of us, has punished you a hundred times for meddling with things lying about the farm.
Take that head back and put it down where you found it, or you will make your mother very angry.
End of chapter fourteen
Chapter fifteen of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beerce.
This Liebervox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
Deathbed repentance.
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