9 seconds sound clip from the A Tale of Two Cities (1938) classic radio drama series episode.
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- Before this prisoner is released, I demand, in the name of the Republic, that this denunciation be read aloud.
- Why waste time?
- Charles Evrémonde, called Darnay! Suspected and denounced enemy of the Republic, aristocrat, one of the family of tyrants, one of a race proscribed.
- Charles Evrémonde, called Darnay, in right of such proscription, doomed to die.
- Was the Accused denounced openly or secretly?
- Openly, President.
- By whom?
- Three voices.
- First, Ernest Defarge, wine vendor, of Saint Antoine.
- Good.
- Second, Thérèse Defarge, his wife.
- Good.
- Third, Alexandre Manette, physician.
- President, I protest! This is a forgery and a fraud. The Accused is the husband of my daughter. Who says that I denounce the husband of my child?
- Citizen Manette, be still. If the Republic should demand of you the sacrifice of your child, you would have no duty but to sacrifice her. Be silent!
- On the fourteenth of July, Seventeen Eighty-Nine, at the taking of the Bastille, a paper was found by Citizen Ernest Defarge, concealed between two stones in the chimney of a cell, no less, One Hundred and Five, North Tower.
- The writing is the writing of Dr. Manette: 'I, Alexandre Manette...' Let it be read! 'I, Alexandre Manette, unfortunate physician, write this melancholy paper in my doleful cell in the Bastille. Hope has quite departed from my...'
- 'I, Alexandre Manette, unhappy prisoner, do this last night of the year, Seventeen Sixty-Seven...'
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