Inner fire

panel from prose window: A tableau from the final chapter of Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities (1859) depicts Sidney Carton riding to the guillotine through a Parisian mob, prepared to sacrifice his life for the benefit of the woman he loves. He will soon utter one of Dickens’s most famous lines: “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.”