Un homme et son péché (1948)
audio: radio100.moeb.ca; image: CBC letter head, Musée des ondes Emile Berliner
[Audio Transcript translated from French]
Speaker: “Pepsodent” toothpaste presents “A man and his sin”, another of the Beautiful stories of the Pays d’en haut.
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Speaker: Séraphin is not lacking in cunning, or imagination. This story of his aunt Adéaïne who died poisoned is perfectly true. It is also true that she owned the land that Ti-Mousse wants to get rid of, now that he is going to stay in the village. The miser told this story hoping that Peuplier would repeat it all over the township, which did not fail.
Character: God dammit! That’s why Ti-Mousse wants to sell his land. It’s because there are ghosts, or that they will come. Who would believe that…
Speaker: In this way, no one would want to buy the land of Ti-Mousse and Séraphin keeps the chance to acquire it cheaply. This Séraphin is priceless and at this time, he is happy to return to his bachelor life, since Donalda is still in Montreal. When will she come back?
Wasn’t it yesterday afternoon on St-Catherine Street in Montreal that she was walking with Julia when…
Donalda: I wonder if everyone …
Julia: What do you say Donalda?
Donalda: I wonder if everyone here is happy.
Julia: Well, you know, poor old girl, that there are unhappy people here like everywhere else. Not only that they have no time to think about it, they live too fast.
Donalda: I assure you that I feel lost, don’t let go of my arm, Julia.
Julia: But you don’t need to be afraid.
Donalda: Where are we going?
Julia: Well we’re going here to the theater.
Donalda: I don’t really like that, Julia…
Julia: Come, come, it will change your mind.
It’s me who will pay, no, no, let me do, it makes me happy, Donalda.
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