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- Baron de Neuville.
- Arrested. Executed.

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

You can hear this line at 00:38:14.250 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Three years go by. The King of France and the Queen of France have paid with their lives for the suffering of the people.

- Day after day, fresh victims are driven through the streets of Paris to feed this new monster which lives on human blood, the guillotine. And at its foot, day after day, sit the women, knitting, knitting.

- London, 1792. The headquarters and the great gathering place of those who fled from France in those troubled years was Tellson's Bank.

- Letter for Marquis de Saint Aupont.

- Here!

- Vicomte de l'Isle? Vicomte de l'Isle?

- Arrested at Calais. Executed.

- Baron de Neuville.

- Arrested. Executed.

- Marquis de Marquis Saint Evrémonde. Marquis de Marquis Saint Evrémonde?

- Here.

- Mr. Darnay?

- I'll take it.

- Charles Darnay. I didn't know that you were familiar with...

- I'll take charge of the letter, Mr. Lorry.

- You know where to deliver it?

- I do. If there's any answer, I'll let you know.

- Monsieur, heretofore, the Marquis Charles de Saint Evrémonde.

- I have been seized and brought to Paris. The crime for which I am to lose my life is, they tell me, treason against the majesty of the people, in that I have acted against them for an emigrant. You are that emigrant.

[...]

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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