That coach brought me here to the Bastille. It brought me to my grave.

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doctor manette grave orson welles

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

You can hear this line at 00:06:41.560 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- And softly followed my servant, Ernest Defarge, upstairs into the room where I sat with my young wife.

- An urgent case, doctor. Won't detain you long. I have a coach waiting.

- When I was clear of the house, a black muffler was drawn tightly over my mouth from behind, and my arms were pinioned.

- The two brothers crossed the road from a dark corner and identified me.

- Not a word was spoken.

- That coach brought me here to the Bastille. It brought me to my grave.

- If it had pleased God to put it in the hard heart of either of the brothers, in all these frightful years, to grant me any tidings of my dearest wife and my child...

- So much as to let me know by a word whether they are alive or dead, I might have thought that he had not quite abandoned them.

- 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.

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A Tale of Two Cities (1938) Sound Clip

Listen 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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