- Many a night as we waited between battles our thoughts full of sadness he spoke of you.
- And what did he say?

9 seconds sound clip from the Ulysses (1954) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:21:27.275 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Too many people in these past years have come to this house saying always the same thing, hoping for hospitality.

- But he says he was a companion of Ulysses in the war.

- If you really knew my husband, tell me about him.

- Why don't you speak? Who are you?

- I'm a friend of Ulysses. We were comrades before the walls of Troy.

- Many a night as we waited between battles our thoughts full of sadness he spoke of you.

- And what did he say?

- Dark, she is, and beautiful in her youth, he said. And full of soft woman's laughter.

- And such a way she has of brushing her hair absently when she works at her spinning wheel, or watches her sleeping child.

- Sometimes he spoke of this infant son Telemachus who sucked his thumb and smiled and slept on the day the swift ships sailed to Troy.

- Sometimes he spoke of the day of his farewell, how he held you in his arms on the beach by the waiting ships. And you whispered, I shall be here when you return.

- Will you return?

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