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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Which are always adulterated with Terra Alba, nor Ames, which will give you the gripes like anything.
You just take this two shilling piece and invest every penny of it in lollipops.
You should have seen the fair bright smile crawl from one of that innocence ears to the other.
You should have marked that face sprinkle all over with dimples.
You ought to have beheld the tears of joy jump glittering into her eyes and spill all over her father's clean shirt that he hadn't had on more than fifteen minutes.
Katie Stanton is impotent of evil in the Grill family so long as the price of sweets remains unchanged.
End of chapter twenty two
Chapter twenty three of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beers This Librevox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
Some fiction
His railway.
The writer remembers as if it were but yesterday when he edited the Hang Tree Herald.
For six months he devoted his best talent to advocating the construction of a railway between that place and Jaha.
thirty miles distant.
The route presented every inducement.
There would be no grating required, and not a single curve would be necessary.
As it lay through an uninhabited alkali flat, the right of way could be easily obtained.
As neither terminus had other than pack mule communication with civilization, the rolling stock and other material must necessarily be constructed at hang tree.
Because the people at the other end didn't know enough to do it, and hadn't any blacksmiths.
The benefit to our place was indisputable.
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