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But feeling the rain upon his back and fearing the rising of the tempest, uplifted his axe and quickly made a hole in the plankings of the door for his gauntleted hand...

14 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:23:23 in the radio play.

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[...]

- I presume it matters little which... Ah. Here. Here is a volume of the 'Mad Trist' by Canning.

- Will it serve?

- As you said, it matters little.

- I've always found the scene to be quite entertaining wherein Ethelred dreams of fighting a dragon.

- Now, let's see. Oh, yes. Here it is.

- And so Ethelred waited no longer to hold parley with the hermit who mocked him from inside the hut...

- But feeling the rain upon his back and fearing the rising of the tempest, uplifted his axe and quickly made a hole in the plankings of the door for his gauntleted hand...

- And now pulling sturdily, he so cracked and ripped all asunder, that the noise of the dry and hollow-sounding wood alarumed and reverberated... throughout the forest.

- Why do you stop?

- Why, that's... that's strange. I fancied I just heard the very sound I read about.

- Let us say it was caused by the storm. Pray continue.

- Oh, yes, the storm. Of course.

- But Ethelred, upon entering the door, was amazed to perceive no sign of the evil hermit...

[...]

The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape) Sound Clip

The Fall of the House of Usher (Escape)Quotes with audio samples from The Fall of the House of Usher - Escape Radio Show episode closely adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of horror, aired on 22 October 1947.

Actors: Paul Frees (The Narrator), Ramsey Hill, (Roderick Usher), Sheridan Hall (The Physician)

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