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She kisses his lips; he kisses hers; they solemnly bless each other. The spare hand does not tremble as he releases it; nothing worse than a sweet, bright constancy is in the patient face. She goes next before him - is gone; the knitting-women count Twenty-Two.

"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."
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The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing on of many footsteps in the out skirts of the crowd, so that it swells forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away. Twenty-Three.

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They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peaceful lest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic.
One of the most remarkable sufferers by the same axe - a woman - had asked at the foot of the same scaffold, not long before, to be allowed to write down the thoughts that were inspiring her. If he had given an utterance to his, and they were prophetic, they would have been these:
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"I see Barsad, the Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, perishing by this retributive instrument, before it shall cease out of its present use. I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long, long years to come, 1 see the evil of this time, and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.
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"I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more. I see her with a child upon her bosom, who bears my name. I see her father, aged and bent, but otherwise restored, and faithful to all men in his healing office, and at peace. 1 see the good old man, so long their friend, in ten years' time enriching them with all he has, and passing tranquilly to his reward.
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"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 it so well, that ray name is made illustrious there by the light of this. I see the blots I threw upon it, faded away. I see him, foremost 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 faltering voice.
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than 1 have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
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20. The male and female referred to in the first section (above the asterisks) are
a. making love in a church
b. saying farewell prior to his going on a business trip
c. losing their lives, one after the other
d. on a stage performing a love scene
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21. In the man's unspoken prophecy, he sees the people for whom he sacrificed his life
a. dying soon afterwards in the terrible Reign of Terror
b. unmindful of his sacrifice for them
c. living in peace and contentment and remembering him with gratitude
d. forgetting him and his deed in their joy at escaping from Paris

22. The man's prophecy further foretells that someone's son will become
a. a fine physician like his grandfather ,
b. a failure like himself
c. a highly respected judge
d. a victim of the axe also

23. He foresaw that a certain married couple
a. will think of him with mixed feelings of respect and repulsion
b. will honour his memory as much as they honoured each other
c. will think of him lovingly for a time but then forget his memory
d. will never know that he sacrificed his life for them, but will nevertheless think of him with great affection
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24. The bold-faced word "illustrious" in the last paragraph but one means
a. glorious b. dishonoured c. clearly pictured d. well known
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25. The tone of this selection is best described as
a. matter-of-fact and prosaic
b. sentimental and semiserious
c. pompous and self-conscious
d. elevated and dignified