6 seconds sound clip from the The 39 Steps (1937) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:43:12 in the radio play.
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- One of the first things he observed about the singer was that while she was dressed in the height of fashion, she wore a starched petticoat and starched petticoats had been out of style for ten years.
- One of the truest utterances of the great French general, Marshal Foch, was his statement to a group of his espionage agents. 'You will die a thousand deaths, before oblivion comes, while the man in the trenches dies but once.'
- And no better example can be found, than that patriot of revolutionary war, John Honeyman. Too old to carry arms, he became a confidential spy at Washington's urgent request and posed as a Tory.
- Despised by his wife and family, ostracized by his friends, he became a cattle buyer for the British army.
- American soldiers were ordered to shoot him on sight.
- But John Honeyman kept his promise never to disclose his real identity.
- Once, he allowed himself to be captured, knowing he might be shot, but there was a chance of being brought before Washington first.
- This, fortunately, happened and Honeyman was able to disclose to Washington how some of his own men were on the verge of assassinating him by placing poison in the general's food.
- And it was John Honeyman who, on Christmas Eve, crossed the Delaware alone, entered Trenton, discovered the condition of the Hessian troops, and reported back to Washington on the other side.
- On Honeyman's unsupported testimony, Washington made his celebrated crossing, won his celebrated victory that turned the tide.
- Honeyman returned to his New Jersey home after the war, still an outcast, still an object of hate and scorn.
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