I saw their faces go ashen with terror as I told them the ants were coming, watched them as they milled around, muttering.
10 seconds sound clip from the Leiningen Versus the Ants (1948) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:04:12 in the radio play.
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- Undoubtedly, he thought me insane. Well, he would have not been the first to think so.
- But I knew my own powers. I was sure of myself.
- I knew that intelligence, directed aright, always makes man the master of his fate.
- That night, I called my Indian workers together in front of the plantation house.
- I said nothing more to them.
- Finally, one of the men stepped forward... Blath, the foreman.
- But, patron, we have worked hard here for these three years. All of us.
- We have built the finest plantation in this district. We all share in it.
- It has been a home for all of us and our families. Now, the ants come.
- So?
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