5 seconds sound clip from the A Tale of Two Cities (1938) classic radio drama series episode.
You can hear this line at 00:38:17.495 in the radio play.
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- 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.
- It is in vain that I tell them that even before the confiscation of emigrant property, according to your commands, I had collected no rent and forced no taxes.
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