Project Gutenberg #98
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
1859Dickens's French Revolution novel, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg plaintext for vocabulary-focused reading.
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CHAPTER XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever
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Chapter 15 — CHAPTER XV. The Footsteps Die Out For Ever Central question How does the novel end its movement from private history to public death? Main argument Carton enters the final machinery of the guillotine...
and passing
tranquilly to his reward.
“I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of
their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping
for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their
course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know
that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other’s soul,
than I was in the souls of both.
“I see that child who lay upon her bosom and who bore my name, a man
winning his way up in that path of life which once was mine. I see him
winning it so well, that my name is made illustrious there by the
light of his. I see the blots I threw upon it, faded away. I see him,
fore-most of just judges and honoured men, bringing a boy of my name,
with a forehead that I know and golden hair, to this place--then fair to
look upon, with not a trace of this day’s disfigurement--and I hear him
tell the child my story, with a tender and a faltering voice.
“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.”