My child, I never thought I should live to know such happiness.

Doctor Manette, Sydney Carton, Doctor Manette (Orson Welles)

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

You can hear this line at 00:33:15.346 in the radio play.

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(Madame Defarge screams)

- And Madame Defarge, at the foot of a structure yet unbuilt, will sit knitting, knitting, counting dropping heads.

- London, 1789.

- Never did I see two people more united than Dr. Manette and his daughter in the weeks before Lucy's marriage to Charles Darnay.

- Are you happy, my dear father?

- My child, I never thought I should live to know such happiness.

- An occasional visitor to their house in Soho-square was Sidney Carton.

- He was not improved in habits, or in looks, or in manner. His air of debauchery was as if, well, even more pronounced.

- And it seemed to me that he was behaving with even less delicacy than usual when he presented himself one afternoon, only a few days before Lucy's marriage, and asked to see Miss Manette alone.

- He was shown upstairs.

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