W. Somerset Maugham
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It constituted the most seductive charm of the scheme.
After six months of conscientious lying, the company was incorporated, and the first shovelful of alkali turned up and preserved in a museum.
When suddenly the devil put it into the head of one of the directors to inquire publicly
What the road was designed to carry.
It is needless to say the question was never satisfactorily answered, and the most daring enterprise of the age was not perfectly cold.
That very night a deputation of stockholders waited upon the editor of the Herald and prescribed a change of climate.
They afterwards said the change did them good.
End of chapter twenty three
Chapter twenty four of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beerce.
This Libravox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
Some fiction, Mr Gish makes a present.
In the season for making presents, my friend Stock Doddle Gish, Esquire, thought he would so far wave his superiority to the insignificant portion of mankind outside his own waistcoat as to follow him.
One of its customs.
Mr Gish had a friend, a delicate female of the shrinking sort.
whom he favours with his esteem as a sort of equivalent for the respect she accords him when he browbeats her.
Our hero numbers among the blessings which his merit has extorted from niggardly nature, a gaunt meat house.
Between whose head and body there exists about the same proportion as between those of a catfish, which he also resembles in the matter of mouth.
As to sides, this precious pub is not dissimilar to a crockery crate, loosely covered with
With a wet sheet.
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