In W. Somerset Maugham's short story "The Consul," Mr. Pete, a long-serving and eccentric British consul in China, becomes exasperated by a particularly vexing case involving an Englishwoman named Miss Lambert. Miss Lambert, who married a Chinese man named Yü, discovers her husband already has a wife and faces hostility from his family. Despite Mr. Pete's attempts to persuade her to leave, Miss Lambert obstinately refuses, even claiming her life is in danger. The consul, frustrated by her irrational attachment,
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THE CONSUL, a Short Story by Somerset Maugham
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