. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. e following to the Guillotine. . Thesupposed Evrentonde descends and the seamstress is lifted out next after him. He hasnot relinquished her patient hand in getting out, but still holds it as he promised. Hegently places her with her back to the crashing engine that constantly whirrs up andfalls, and she looks into his face, and thanks him. They solemnly bless each spare hand does not tremble as he releases it; nothing worse than a sweet, brightconstancy is in the patient face. She goes next before him—is gone; the knittingwomen
. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. e following to the Guillotine. . Thesupposed Evrentonde descends and the seamstress is lifted out next after him. He hasnot relinquished her patient hand in getting out, but still holds it as he promised. Hegently places her with her back to the crashing engine that constantly whirrs up andfalls, and she looks into his face, and thanks him. They solemnly bless each spare hand does not tremble as he releases it; nothing worse than a sweet, brightconstancy is in the patient face. She goes next before him—is gone; the knittingwomen count Twenty- Two. I am the Resurrection and the Life, saitb the Lord; he that believeth in Me,though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shallnever die. The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing on ofmany footsteps on the outskirts of the crowd, so that it swells forward in a mass, likeone great heave of water, all flashes away. Twenty- Three ! Dickenss Tale of Two Cities. XVI. FholDgravure Goupil X Gq CAETHON 203 CASPAR flight, and his mother died in he was three years old, Comhal (Fin-gals father) took and burnt Balclutha (atown belonging to the Britons, on theClyde), but Carthon was carried awaysafely by his nurse. When grown to mansestate, Carthon resolved to revenge thisattack on Balclutha, and accordingly in-vaded Morven, the kingdom of overthrowing two of Fingals heroes,Carthon was slain by his own father, whoknew him not; but when Clessammorlearnt that it was his own son whom hehad slain, he mourned for him three days,and on the fourth he died.—Ossian, Car-thon. Carton {Sydney)^ a friend of CharlesDarnay, -whom he personally Carton loved Lucie Manette, butknowing of her attachment to Darnay,never attempted to win her. Her friend-ship, however, called out his good quali-ties, and he nobly died instead of hisfriend.—C. Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities(185
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