A common dog, but a sword in my hand.

3 seconds sound clip from the A Tale of Two Cities (1938) classic radio drama series episode.

You can hear this line at 00:05:07.640 in the radio play.

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- And then back in the harness in the day, taken out of harness one day at noon to feed, if he could find food.

- He sobbed twelve times, once for every stroke of the bell, and died on her bosom.

- Then when her husband was dead, that man took her away.

- I saw her pass on the road.

- I tracked him here and last night I climbed in.

- A common dog, but a sword in my hand.

- I made him draw and fight with me.

- Common dog that I am, where is he?

- He is not here.

- Marquis of St. Evrémonde, in the days when all these things are to be answered for, I summon you and yours to the last of your bad race to answer for them.

- I mark this cross of blood upon you as a sign that I do it.

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