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- Wait. Let me light the candles.
- No. I am quite used to darkness.

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

You can hear this line at 00:21:05 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Then, in one instant, a soft sound in the blackness froze my steps in paralysis of terror.

- The latch of my chamber door was being lifted from without.

- Who is it? Who is it, I say?

- It is I, Roderick.

- Oh. Oh, Roderick.

- What are you doing up and about at this hour... in pitch blackness?

- Wait. Let me light the candles.

- No. I am quite used to darkness.

- I heard your footsteps and knew that you must be awake even as I was.

- But... can it be that you've not seen it?

- I don't understand you. I've seen nothing.

- Then stay. You shall see it! Even as I've seen it for these past two hours!

- Wait, wait, I'll throw open the casement window! There! Look!

- It was, indeed, a tempestuous yet sternly beautiful night, and one wildly singular in its terror and in its beauty.

[...]

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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