- Just Heaven! Under what law? For what offense?
- We have new laws, Aristocrat, and new offenses since you were here.

— Charles Darnay (Edgar Barrier)

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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 00:39:56.243 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- And what is the message?

- Simply that he has received the letter and will come.

- Three days later, a few leagues out of Calais, on the Paris road, Charles Darnay was arrested.

- Citizen, I beg you to observe that I came here of my own free will, in answer to that written appeal that lies before you. Is that not my right?

- Right? Emigrants have no rights.

- You're consigned, Evrémonde, to the Prison of La Conciergerie.

- Just Heaven! Under what law? For what offense?

- We have new laws, Aristocrat, and new offenses since you were here.

- News reached London through a secret agent of Tellson's Bank that Charles Darnay was in prison, in danger of death.

- Three days later we were in Paris... Lucie with her child and Dr. Manette.

- Come in.

- Good evening, Citizen. Do you know me?

- I've seen you somewhere.

- Perhaps at my wine-shop.

- I noticed, standing in the door, a heavily built woman, silently knitting.

[...]

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