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The doctor regrets his sad duty?

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

You can hear this line at 00:12:58 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Unfortunately, I can only take refuge in the term 'heart failure.'

- Heart failure? Yes, yes! Of course!

- Very well, doctor. If you will be kind enough to wait, I'll come down directly and discuss the arrangements.

- At your service. I bid you good afternoon, gentlemen.

- I assure you of my deepest sympathy.

- You do? Your deepest sympathy?

- The doctor regrets his sad duty?

- Are you fools? Both of you, fools?

- I don't understand.

- Haven't you seen it yet? Can you not feel it about you? The horrid, monstrous, brooding spirit of this accursed house? Can't you hear its evil laughter as it lurks in the hallways and grows fat upon the soul of my dead sister?

- Can't you see that it matters nothing to me that she's dead? That I myself walk but a few steps behind her into the same shadows of hell?

- Can't you sense those hideous tentacles even now reaching out for me? For me!

[...]

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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