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Doctor, your clients are people of condition. Enough. Will you please enter the carriage?

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

You can hear this line at 00:02:17.149 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I write these words with a rusty iron point dipped in scrapings of soot and charcoal from the chimney, mixed with blood.

- One cloudy night, ten years ago, I was walking along the quay by the river.

- Dr. Manette?

- That is my name.

- Dr. Manette, formerly of Beauvais.

- I am that Dr. Manette.

- Will you please enter the carriage, Dr. Manette?

- Gentlemen, pardon me, but I usually inquire who does me the honor to seek my assistance.

- Doctor, your clients are people of condition. Enough. Will you please enter the carriage?

- They were armed and I was not. I got in in silence.

- We left the streets behind, through the north barrier, onto a country road, and presently stopped at a solitary house.

- I saw that the two men were brothers.

- In an upper room, I found a patient in a high fever of the brain, lying on a bed.

- She was a woman of great beauty and young, certainly not past twenty.

[...]

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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