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Oh! Oh, my friend, my friend, you've come at last. Thank God you did come.

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

You can hear this line at 00:06:44 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- But, at length, we stood before the door of the master's studio. And there the servant left me. Departed and left me - to go in alone.

- The man across the room, half-reclining on the couch, his back turned toward me, did not hear the opening of the door.

- For the space of several heartbeats, I saw only the deathly pale and ghastly sunken features of a stranger.

- Then, only with difficulty could I recognize, behind that mask, my boyhood friend.

- For, surely, under light of Heaven, no man had ever before so terribly altered, in so brief a time, as had Roderick Usher.

- Oh! Oh, my friend, my friend, you've come at last. Thank God you did come.

- Oh, did you not know I would? Could you not be sure that no long years would ever dim the friendship we shared in youth?

- Hmm. So many things have dimmed. Aha, youth! It seems so long ago. But now you're here and we'll find it, relive it all over again, every glorious moment of it.

- 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.

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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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