If he had been spirited away to some dreadful place, then the history of your father would have been the history of this unfortunate gentleman, the Doctor of Beauvais.
11 seconds sound clip from the A Tale of Two Cities (1938) classic radio drama series episode.
You can hear this line at 00:11:56.377 in the radio play.
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- The story relates to one of our customers.
- Yes.
- One of our customers, a French gentleman, a scientific gentleman, a doctor.
- Miss Manette, if your father had not died when he did...
- As I was saying, if Monsieur Manette had not died, if he had suddenly and silently disappeared...
- I entreat you to tell me more, sir.
- I can bear anything but this uncertainty.
- Your father has been found in the house of an old servant in Paris. We're going there. He is alive.
- We found the wine shop of Doctor Manette's old servant, Ernest Defarge.
[...]