Carton’s last words as he approaches Madame Guillotine to rest his neck in her eternal embrace are fitting: “I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.” Afterward, those who gazed on the spectacle of injustice said of Carton “that it was the peacefullest man’s face ever beheld there.”
