Preview: Part III, Chapter 13
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Start: In the black prison of the Conciergerie, the doomed of the day awaited their fate.
Stop after: but, so far, we are pursued by nothing else.
Fifty-two condemned prisoners await the afternoon’s carts. In the confined hours before departure, private writing and quiet companionship briefly resist the prison’s machinery.
Preparations now reach inside the prison, and pressure grows as time runs short. Dickens emphasizes who controls each conversation and what each participant can understand.