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- What about Heathcliff?
- You know he gets worse every day.

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

You can hear this line at 00:21:24 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, the kitchen's no place for that dress. Come inside.

- No, no, listen. Edgar has asked me to marry him.

- What did you say?

- Well, I'm to give him my answer tomorrow.

- Cathy, do you love him?

- Of course. Why? Now, isn't that a silly question?

- 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?

[...]

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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