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This was phenomenally funny. And a very droll Edwardian way, but absolutely delightful.

"Cannot be underestimated" means it is negligible, dummy.

S M at his best, thank you.

Laughed out loud!

Delightful story. Superb descriptions. Somset Maugham is Mr Sees All in the best possible sense.

Thank you 🙏🩰

I'm very muchenjoying this story and looking forward to part 2. Thank you.

Pity that this reader is so flat and often stresses the syllables in words and wrong words in a sentence, and what is that strange screech for the "eh!" ?

Thank you 🙏 || 11:53 will you possibly upload more of this story? Thanks in advance 🫡🛼🩰

Somerset Maugham?

Loudfrequent disturbing disruptive plucking shithing ADS made this intolerable.

Wonderful! I smiled all the way through and very often gave a little giggle too. Thank you😅

Great storytelling. The number of comments bemoaning the lack of love, sad ending, injustices of society, et. al., must all be from Americans.

A monster of depravity....like all women😂😂

Very much enjoying listening to your stories. I'm building a catalogue of shorts from excerpts of my novel, The Adventures of Isabelle Book II: Journey to Orphalese. I would love your opinion (if you have the time) ruclips.net/video/3x-3mP4iKoY/видео.htmlsi=nnEy40ZBu_CVneoZ

Singing is a spiritual representation of the pursuit of beauty and perfection. Suicide, a symbol of disillusionment, always shocks. Is it better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all? Technology has blinded man to his basic humanity. Our present era appraises and praises a ruthlessness and callousness in life worthwhile pursuing that is confounding and deplores humility. The Roman sandal is as relevant today as it was yesteryear.

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Most enjoyable. Thank you very much.

A lengthy description of a man's character - but, to what end? Ditto, the description of the "Desperado" type come to visit the shop keeper. This story seems more like a preface to a novel...except, that the novel is absent.

I think there are many melancholy women right now as they reminisce.

Thank you for a great story and narration.

Thanks so much for these stories. I love them!

I rather listen to Somerset tell the story than others’ pseudo-intellectual outrage. Doubtless they are failures in everything they do, but anyways have an excuse or a dozen.

There’s nothing worse than a familiar chauffeur.

Does anyone write this vividly these days?

I’m hooked. Great storytelling. “Narrow is the corner…” Thank you for broadening ours.

Though dated , and sometimes voicing prejudices , class/race/sexism, and to our ears now, outmoded, yet Maugham describes cogently, all that made white "English"/Erstwhile Roman Empire colonialism obnoxiously hypocritical and dictatorial, and obviously, now, how deaf and dumb is the foundation of current "norms" clung to in Colonial outposts and the clubs still maintained, secular and religious, still blind to its own errors and faults , and protecting it with arrogant ignorance: it was and remains the pride in prejudice reified by colonial control merchants and social climbers, customarily found advertising their toxic social habits, to whit , drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and sly fornicating with someone or other of the subject "community" they seek to "lord it" over.

Warning, lol, this is not a story to be lulled to sleep by! Fabulous.

Humorous!! And a great ending

George was not a kind man. Evie was lovely and quiet. Evie was victorious.

I enjoy these stories though his misogyny comes through in almost all of his stories.

I married for the 1st time a wife of 1/2 my age. Her being 25 when I met her and myself being 50. The age gap closes with maturity. Her being 30 when we married and me being 55. Myself having gone thru two diasterous attempts to start a family with less then worthy women who had ruined my reputation and alienated me from my children had left me alone and quite sceptical of any hope of having a chance to fulfill the desire of any normal man. A faithfull wife and a brood of happy children just seemed to be a flight of fantasy. Yet thru divine providence a little baby girl was born on the opposite side of the planet who was abandoned by her parents and raised by her Grandparents and we would be drawn [ together ] ( I've always loved that word )... I'm 66 now and we have 4 beautiful children. 2 boys, and 2 girls. My wife has never given me reason for regret. Never lied to me, and has been the reason for me to get up and face the insurmountable adversity and struggles you couldn't even imagine that I've been thru in the past 4 years.😂 As of now I've been seperated from them running on 4 years do to the Imigration process. While 11 + million Illegals have entered the country 😢 ?

Thank you very much.

Poor Carruthers. What bothered him more, that Lady Betty loved someone else or that the man she loved was common? Carruthers was a helpless prig.

Reminds me of the movie “Remains of the Day.”

Compare and contrast her with Wodehouse’s Jeeves!

Oh, my goodness! That sudden switch from her self-loving delusion to others' appalled perception of her true self.

Brilliant! Much obliged!

I suppose Violet finds herself unable to live independently, therefore has no choice but to remain with her husband. Not a very pleasant position to be in.

Not a few times he went to where the Russian Literature is! Thank you very very much!

Thank you for sharing this with us. I’m so glad to have found your channel. Thank you again and God bless.🙂

I feel the emotions of the characters, great story , great writing.

This story will make a helpless feeling echoed in reader's mind. The protagonist planned an advancing budget, then going to a long rest leisure life, is undiputedable and doesn't hurt anybody's interest. "IF" he changed the expenditure strategy. taking $700 than $1000 , monthly, from his annuity, for example. He can last to 70 years old. More aggressively, taking $500 then lasts to 80 years old. The ending would be happiness and no regret in life.

This was really good. Most enjoyable. Not sure why, but it truly struck my fancy.

This one actually gave me a very good, and much needed belly laugh!😄🎢🪂👏👏

I love his short stories. It’s like I can forget about 2024 and go back 100 years. ❤

Excellent! What is the piano music? It's beautiful

That's a funny story, but it's kind of sad too, isn't it

Thank you from Moscow.