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- Dear, dear. And you have such a nice face. How many people have you killed altogether?
- 9. And if you don't watch the point on that nail file, it may be 10! Ouch!

12 seconds sound clip from the The 39 Steps (1937) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:35:52 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- That'd be somewhere near where they gave us the slip! Turn around. We'll find out.

- Right.

- And if we see 'em again, blast you, shoot straight.

- I will, all right. You can depend upon that.

- Then little by little, and year by year, I sunk lower and lower.

- Hmm, and you got badder and badder.

- That's right.

- You might have read about me in the papers. They call me Hannay, the Cornish Bluebeard.

- And that, me lady, is the 'orrible story of me life.

- Dear, dear. And you have such a nice face. How many people have you killed altogether?

- 9. And if you don't watch the point on that nail file, it may be 10! Ouch!

- At least I'm trying to do something.

- Well, if you don't mind, I'm gonna try and get some sleep. I haven't had a wink for forty-eight hours.

- Well, I'm not in the least bit tired. Besides, I have to stay by the fire and get dry.

- All right. You don't mind if I stretch out in the chair, do you?

- No, not at all.

- Thank you.

- Ho ho, good night.

- Good night.

[...]

The 39 Steps (1937) Sound Clip

The 39 StepsQuotes with sound clips from the old-time radio play "The 39 Steps" (1937), based on John Buchan's novel, first aired on December 13, 1937 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: Robert Montgomery (Richard Hannay), Ida Lupino (Pamela Stuart), Isabel Jewel (Annabella Smith), Gene Lockhart (Mr. Memory), Leonard Mudie (Professor Bartlett),

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