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No. It doesn't help to strike you.

6 seconds sound clip from the Wuthering Heights (1939)) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:19:55 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Who turns you into a cheap, vain, ambitious fool? Linton does.

- You let yourself be loved by him because you want to be a fine lady, because it pleases your stupid, greedy vanity!

- Stop it! Thief or beggar is all you were born to be! Kneeling beside the road, begging for favours, not earning them, but wimpering for them, with dirty hands!

- I see. All I am to you now is a pair of dirty hands. Well, have 'em, then! Have 'em where they belong!

- How dare you? How dare you?

- No. It doesn't help to strike you.

- Well, Heathcliff. I'll thank you to stay out of my kitchen.

- Is... is Cathy still with him?

- Yes, she is.

- What's the matter with you? What are you staring at?

- I want to crawl to her feet, whimper to be forgiven for loving her. For needing her more than my own life. For belonging to her more than my own soul.

- I want to beg for a smile.

[...]

Wuthering Heights (1939) Sound Clip

The 39 StepsMemorable quotes from Emily Brontë's novel, featuring sound clips from the Lux Radio Theatre broadcast version first aired on September 18, 1939 on CBS.

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck (Cathy), Ida Lupino (Isabella Linton), Brian Aherne (Heathcliff), Thomas Freebairn-Smith (Edgar Linton), Kemball Cooper (Hindley), Marga Ann Deighton (Ellen)

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