When I was clear of the house, a black muffler was drawn tightly over my mouth from behind, and my arms were pinioned.

7 seconds sound clip from the A Tale of Two Cities (1938) classic radio drama series episode.

You can hear this line at 00:06:27.690 in the radio play.

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- I returned to the bedside of the girl. The sound of her voice never ceased. She lingered on for a week. Then on the eighth day...

- At last she's dead?

- She is dead.

- I congratulate you, my brother.

- Five nights later, toward nine o'clock, a man in a black dress rang at my gate, demanded to see me...

- And softly followed my servant, Ernest Defarge, upstairs into the room where I sat with my young wife.

- An urgent case, doctor. Won't detain you long. I have a coach waiting.

- When I was clear of the house, a black muffler was drawn tightly over my mouth from behind, and my arms were pinioned.

- The two brothers crossed the road from a dark corner and identified me.

- Not a word was spoken.

- That coach brought me here to the Bastille. It brought me to my grave.

- If it had pleased God to put it in the hard heart of either of the brothers, in all these frightful years, to grant me any tidings of my dearest wife and my child...

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