11 seconds sound clip from the Wuthering Heights (1939)) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:21:44 in the radio play.
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- Because he's handsome and pleasant to be with.
- Not enough.
- Well, then, because he'll be rich someday! And I'll be the finest lady in the county.
- Oh, Ellen, it would be heaven to escape from here.
- What about Heathcliff?
- You know he gets worse every day.
- It would degrade me to marry him. I wish he'd never come back.
- What was that?
- I think... Oh, nothing. The wind perhaps.
- Well, my darling, if Master Edgar and his beautiful home mean heaven to you, you'd better enter that heaven and take your place among the Linton angels.
- The only thing is, I wonder if I belong in heaven. I dreamed once I was there and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth, to the bleak moors. And I awoke, sobbing with joy, on top of Wuthering Heights.
- And so you see, I suppose I've really no more business marrying Edgar Linton than I'd have in heaven. But, oh, what can I do?
- You're thinking of Heathcliff?
- Who else?
- He's sunk so low, he seems to take pleasure in being mean and brutal and yet... he's more myself than I am.
- Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Everything he's suffered, I've suffered, too. The little happiness he's known, I've known.
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