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One day, after eighteen years, the sound stops, and for a while North Tower cell number 105 is empty.

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

You can hear this line at 00:08:22.313 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- But now I believe that the mark of the Red Cross is fatal to them, and that they have no part in his mercies.

- And them, and their descendants, to the last of their race, I, Alexandre Manette, unhappy prisoner, do, this last night of the year 1767, in my unbearable agony, denounce them to heaven and to earth.

- The words are written, in scrapings of soot mixed with blood, on scraps of crumbling paper. There they lie hidden away in the solid stone, year after year.

- Now in the North Tower, cell number 105 is heard all day, a low, hammering sound.

- The sound of an old man making shoes in the dark.

- One day, after eighteen years, the sound stops, and for a while North Tower cell number 105 is empty.

- My name is Jarvis Lorry.

- Most of the characters in this history are people whom I first encountered in the course of business on behalf of Tellson's Bank, London and Paris, of which I have been for many years a partner.

- This is a history of events that took place in London and across the Channel in France in the terrible years immediately preceding and during the great French Revolution.

- 1785, the Dover Road.

- What o'clock do you make it, Joe?

- Ten minutes good past eleven.

[...]

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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