Eh, true, I've been ill. A nervous affliction, something in the nature of a family weakness probably.

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

You can hear this line at 00:08:05 in the radio play.

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- And all these shadows, all these gibbering phantoms that haunt me... they'll be driven out. And then the sun will shine again. And we'll be young again and we'll...

- Ah, oh, but forgive me, my friend. My excessive joy at the sight of you after so many years drives me into a frenzy of talk.

- How many years has it...? Ah ha, no matter. It is enough that you are here. Here and brought with you all the lost, all the happy days of my boyhood.

- But I'd expected from your letter to find you in serious straits indeed. Instead, you seem in the best of spirits.

- You have the right to know. But, in all frankness, here in your presence, I find it difficult to credit important are those things which only yesterday filled me with terror.

- Eh, true, I've been ill. A nervous affliction, something in the nature of a family weakness probably.

- It has affected me with a morbid acuteness of the senses such that, quite often, the least sounds and odors and colors become irritating beyond endurance.

- I've eaten but little, as you can see.

- But, surely, you've retained the services of a physician.

- A physician? Oh, yes, of course. He calls almost daily. Though it is more often Madeline that he attends.

- You remember my twin sister Madeline? For her I fear more greatly than for myself.

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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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