Carton's Sacrifice - The Climax

From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Carton drugs Darnay and takes his place in the Conciergerie, walking to the guillotine to fulfill his promise to Lucie.
Book 3, Chapter 13 (Fifty-two)

The substitution in the prison cell, Carton reciting 'I am the Resurrection and the Life.'

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Book 3, Chapter 15 (The Footsteps Die Out For Ever)

Carton at the guillotine with the seamstress, his prophetic vision of the future.

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