I know very well that you can have no tenderness for me. I ask for none. I'm even thankful that it cannot be.

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

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

You can hear this line at 00:34:03.960 in the radio play.

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- 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.

- Miss Manette, will you hear me?

- Yes, Mr. Carton.

- Miss Manette,

- I know very well that you can have no tenderness for me. I ask for none. I'm even thankful that it cannot be.

- Without it, is there nothing I can do for you, Mr. Carton?

- All you can ever do for me is done. I wish you to know that you've been the last dream of my soul.

- In my degradation, I've not been so degraded, but the sight of you with your father and of this house has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me.

- A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

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