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I was being unable to divine its true nature from Roderick's hesitant offerings...

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

You can hear this line at 00:09:57 in the radio play.

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[...]

- Everything will be different now that you're here. Do you remember when we were...?

- But the happy forgetfulness which Roderick found in my coming was short-lived.

- And, in a few days, he had sunk into a morose torpor from which only occasionally, with frantic difficulty, could he reach the joy of our first few hours of meeting.

- More often, his mental apathy was broken by bursts of vicious temper and violent ill humor. This I could only excuse on the basis of his illness.

- And that illness began, in my mind, to assume a most mysterious character.

- I was being unable to divine its true nature from Roderick's hesitant offerings...

- I took the liberty of questioning the physician a few days later when I chanced to encounter him in a hallway.

- Yes, she's resting as well as might be expected.

- But she continues to decline? Is that not correct, Doctor?

- That would seem to be the case.

- And the malady... the illness which has stricken her... is it the same as that which affects her brother Roderick?

- I may venture that it is.

- Might I inquire the nature of this illness?

- As to that, I am unable to say.

[...]

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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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