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As a wife and a mother, I implore you to have pity on me! My husband is innocent!

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

You can hear this line at 00:41:33.619 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Dearest, take courage. I am well and your father has influence around me. You cannot answer this. Kiss our child for me.

- Is that his child?

- Yes, madame. This is the prisoner's little child.

- It is enough, my husband, that I have seen them. We may go.

- Oh, madame!

- Yes, Aristocrat?

- Madame, you will be good to my husband? You will help me to see him if you can?

- What is it that your husband says in that little letter? Influence, no? He says something about influence?

- He says...

- Perhaps it will release him.

- As a wife and a mother, I implore you to have pity on me! My husband is innocent!

- The wives and mothers we have been used to see have not been greatly pitied.

- All our lives we have seen our women suffer: poverty, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery.

- We have seen nothing else.

- We have borne this a long time.

- Is it likely the trouble of one wife and mother would be much to us now?

- Goodbye, Aristocrat.

- Charles Evrémonde, called Darnay! Charles Evrémonde, called Darnay!

- Take off his head! An enemy to the Republic!

[...]

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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