Six carts are headed towards the Guillotine. Barsad tries to quiet a hater of Evremonde- knowing, as he does- that it is Sydney who will die. Sydney has taken a seamstress under his protection, such as it is. He has held her hand on the way to her death. He now asks her to watch him as she goes to her execution. She is troubled that she cannot tell her sister. He comforts her- there is neither time nor trouble in the next world. They kiss and she is gone. He takes his place before the knife.....
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