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- A bank draft?
- Well, read it.

4 seconds sound clip from the Little Women (1950) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:27:11 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- What about your manners? Trying to avoid me all the time.

- What were you doing in there?

- What I was doing is a secret.

- All right. Keep your secret. Only, I've got one, too.

- Oh? Something plummy?

- Something very plummy.

- Now, tell me yours... and I'll tell you mine.

- All right. Here.

- A bank draft?

- Well, read it.

- Pay to Josephine March the sum of 1 dollar...

- For what?

- Turn it over.

- In full payment for her story entitled... 'The Phantom Hand.'

- Well?

- One dollar!

- Oh. Well, maybe it isn't much, but some day I'll get as - as much as ten dollars.

- I just don't understand you. Cooping yourself up in a garret, missing a lot of fun with me, working... and for what? For one, measly little dollar!

- It isn't the dollar. At least, that's not all of it.

- It'll be read in print, and I wrote every word. And people will read it... people I've never even seen.

[...]

Little Women (1950) Sound Clip

Little Women vintage book coverAudio quotes from the old-time radio play "Little Women", based on Louisa May Alcott's novel, broadcast March 13, 1950 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: June Allyson (Jo March), Janet Leigh (Meg March), Margaret O’Brien (Beth March), Rhoda Williams (Amy March), Peter Lawford (Laurie), Betty Lou Gerson (Marmee March), Robert Boone (Professor Bhaer)

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