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Tell me her story.

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

You can hear this line at 00:07:19 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Am I mad? Why did he go out there? What was that voice?

- You heard him call her name. It was Cathy.

- Cathy? Who's she?

- Cathy is a girl, who died.

- I don't believe in ghosts, if that's what you mean. I don't believe in phantoms sobbing in the night.

- You don't believe? Perhaps if I told you her story, you'd change your mind - about the dead returning.

- Tell me her story.

- It all began the time I came to Wuthering Heights as a servant. That was fifty years ago, in Seventeen Hundred and Ninety.

- The place was different then... a sweet, well-kept estate.

- Mr. Earnshaw was master. A fine man who dearly loved his two children, Cathy and Hindley.

- One day, Mr. Earnshaw returned from Liverpool with a foundling boy he had picked up.

- A dark, savage-lookin' gypsy lad, with the most dreadful marks of beatings on his back.

[...]

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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