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All you can ever do for me is done. I wish you to know that you've been the last dream of my soul.

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

You can hear this line at 00:34:16.200 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- He was shown upstairs.

- Miss Manette, will you hear me?

- Yes, Mr. Carton.

- Miss Manette,

- I know very well that you can have no tenderness for me. I ask for none. I'm even thankful that it cannot be.

- Without it, is there nothing I can do for you, Mr. Carton?

- All you can ever do for me is done. I wish you to know that you've been the last dream of my soul.

- In my degradation, I've not been so degraded, but the sight of you with your father and of this house has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me.

- A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

- Will nothing of it remain?

- No, Miss Manette, no.

- No, I shall never be better than I am. I'm like one who died young. All my life might have been.

- Don't be afraid. I'll never refer to this again, only in the hour of my death I shall hold sacred this one good remembrance that my last avowal of myself was made to you, and that my name and faults, and miseries were gently carried in your heart.

[...]

A Tale of Two Cities (1938) Sound Clip

A Tale of Two Cities book coverListen to memorable quotes of Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities", as brought to life by Orson Welles in this rare 1938 Mercury Theatre radio play, featuring sound clips.

Actors: Orson Welles (Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette), Edgar Barrier (Charles Darnay), Betty Garde (Madame Defarge), Mary Taylor (Lucie Manette), Martin Gabel (Jarvis Lorry)

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