In the afternoons, she usually sat for me while I attempted all in vain to capture her beauty on canvas.

10 seconds sound clip from the The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:21:05 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- You have been here only a matter of hours. You cannot know what it is to live here month upon month, year after year, breathing this infernal air...

- Absorbing the miasma of barbarity which permeates these walls, particularly this chamber.

- But it did not bother her at first either.

- Our life was good, rich with the shared pleasures of our love.

- Each morning, I would bring her breakfast.

- In the afternoons, she usually sat for me while I attempted all in vain to capture her beauty on canvas.

- I did that portrait which you saw in her room before, but it is all inadequate to recall the loveliness of her.

- We dined, sometimes alone, enjoying intimate conversation, sometimes with the doctor.

- And every night, Elizabeth would play for me.

- Life was simple, quiet, richly pleasurable, and then the darkness began to fall.

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