And yet it was no secret that Toad's costly follies had brought him to the brink of bankruptcy.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:04:15 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- The answer to that lay just around the bend at Toad Hall, the ancestral home of J. Thaddeus himself.
- This impressive structure, by the way, was by all odds the finest home on the river.
- The animals were tremendously proud of it.
- They felt it gave the whole community an air of respectability.
- To lose Toad Hall was, of course, unthinkable.
- And yet it was no secret that Toad's costly follies had brought him to the brink of bankruptcy.
- So, as a last resort, MacBadger volunteered to take over and put Toad's house in order.
- Um... Ach! How can a man figure out all this with all this hubbub?
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