Preview: Part III, Chapter 15
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Start: Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh.
Stop after: it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
Six death-carts move through Paris toward the guillotine, carrying fifty-two prisoners. The chapter widens its view from the crowd and the historical causes of revolutionary violence to two people holding hands in one cart.
Repeated counting, faces, and remembered words steady both Carton and the seamstress. Dickens balances immediate physical detail with a visionary mode that considers what a final act may mean beyond the present scene.