Of his more than 100 hundred short stories, this is Maugham's favorite. He once wrote that the reason was that in it he had created a sentence that pleased him enormously: "Here love had tarried for a moment like a migrant bird that happens on a ship in midocean and for a little while folds its tired wings." While this is an impressive passage and illustrates the fact that Maugham was a better stylist than he is often considered—being lyrical when appropriate and down-toearth when needful—there are more substantial reasons for admiring this tale.
Since Maugham was bilingual, speaking French.....
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