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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But a broken leer gives forth no music, and her heart responded not with any more long metre hymns.
After a few weeks of this solitary life, she was suddenly missed.
At the same time a strange seal was noted among the rest.
She was remarkable for being always clad in an overcoat.
Which she had doubtless fished up from the wreck of the French galleon, Rucknardello.
Which went ashore.
There some years afterwards.
One tempestuous night an old hag who had long done business as a hermitus on Helmet Rock was
Came into the bar room at the Cliff House.
And there, amidst the crushing thunders and lightnings spilling all over the horizon, the
She related that she had seen a young seal in a comfortable overcoat.
Sitting pensively upon the pinnacle of Seal Rock
and had distinctly heard the familiar words of a Methodist Tim.
Upon inquiry, the tale was discovered to be founded upon facts.
The identity of the seal could no longer be denied without downright blasphemy.
and in all the old chronicles of that period not a doubt is even implied.
One day a handsome, dark, young lieutenant of infantry was
Doned Mundo, by name.
came out to the cliffhouse to celebrate his recent promotion.
While standing upon the verge of the cliff, with his friends all about him, Lady Celia, as visitors had christened her, was
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