The milkman was telling me this morning that as he came up the lane, behind the gasworks it was, he found a rose bush growing by the roadside in full bloom in the middle of November.
13 seconds sound clip from the The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1954) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:16:20 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- We now continue Theater Royal with your host, Sir Ralph Richardson.
- He returned to the town scared and very quiet and retired unobtrusively to bed.
- And at breakfast the following morning, he could scarcely look his landlady in the eye.
- Warm weather we're having for the time of year.
- He said he just couldn't believe his eyes. He was sure it wasn't there yesterday evening.
- Of course, I told him rose bushes don't just grow up overnight, do they?
- Well, that reminds me, I must get a new walking stick.
- A new walking stick? Well, have you lost your old one? Or has it been stolen, more likely?
- Crime! I don't know what this town's come into.
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