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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My friend would.
He wrote citizen five hundred dollars.
pledging Brother Jones, as he had pledged the others, not to reveal his name until it was time to pay.
Some weeks afterward, a clergyman stepped into my friend's counting room, and after smilingly introducing himself, produced that identical subscription list.
Mr K, said he, I hope you will pardon the liberty, but I have set on foot a little scheme to erect a new church for our congregation.
And three of the brethren have subscribed handsomely.
Would you mind doing something to help along the good work?
My friend glanced over his spectacles at the proffered paper.
He rose in his wrath.
He towered.
Seizing a loaded pen he dashed at that fair sheet and scrabbled thereon in raging characters.
In Pentinent sinner, not one cent by G
After a brief explanatory conference, the minister thoughtfully went his way.
That struggling congregation still worships devoutly in its original unpretending temple.
End of chapter sixteen
Chapter seventeen
Of the fiend's delight.
By Ambrose Beerce.
This Liebervox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
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