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- How long has she lasted?
- Since about this hour last night.

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

You can hear this line at 00:03:10.431 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- Her hair was torn and ragged and her arms were bound to her side.

- My husband. My father. My brother. One, two, three.

- How long has she lasted?

- Since about this hour last night.

- She has a husband, a father, and a brother.

- A brother. You are not her brother. I am not.

- My brother. One, two, three, four, five.

- There is another patient. You had better see. Come.

- In a back room, on some hay on the ground, lay a handsome boy of not more than seventeen.

[...]

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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