W. Somerset Maugham
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1,790 appearances
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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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Such is the touching tale narrated by a newspaper correspondent.
It is in every respect true.
I knew the parties well, and during that long, bitter period of thirteen years it was commonly asked concerning the woman.
Hasn't that hag trapped anybody yet?
She'll have to take back old Jabe when he gets out.
And she did.
For nearly thirteen weary years she struggled nobly against fate and
She went after every unmarried man in her part of the country.
But no, said they, we cannot, indeed we cannot, marry you.
After the way you went back on Jabe, it is likely that under the same circumstances you would play us the same scurvy trick.
Go away, woman.
And so the poor old broken hearted creature had to go to the governor and get the old man pardoned out.
Bless her for her steadfast fidelity.
End of chapter twenty nine
Chapter thirty of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Bierce.
This Librevox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
Some fiction
Margaret the childless.
This, therefore, is the story of her
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