9 seconds sound clip from the Wuthering Heights (1939)) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:37:47 in the radio play.
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- Oh, you mustn't do this villainous thing.
- She's never harmed you!
- No, but you've harmed me.
- Then punish me!
- And that's what I intend to do.
- I don't understand.
- Every moment I hold her in my arms, when I kiss her, when I promise her life and happiness, you'll be punished.
- You'd marry her to do that?
- Yes! To teach you the ways of pain and the hell that I'm in.
- Oh, you can't. If there's anything human left in you, don't make me a partner to this crime. It's mad! It's stupid!
- If your heart were only stronger than your dull care for the world and its conventions, I'd live silent and content in your shadow, begging for an occasional word or thought as I used to do.
- But now you had to destroy me with that weakness you call virtue. You had to keep me tormented with that cruelty you think so pious.
- How have I been cruel?
- You wished to be known as the finest lady in the county. You wanted your luxury and your light. And at the same time you wanted to keep me your despairing lover.
- Well, now that I am returned, had you given me the smile of love I might have been content.
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