Book the Third: CHAPTER XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever

Summary

• -Carton and the young seamstress reach the guillotine
• -The seamstress reflects that the new Republic may make life easier for her and her surviving cousin
• -She kisses Carton and goes calmly to her death
• -Carton dies in the knowledge that “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”