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Book & Review Forums: A Tale of Two Cities

Is this a reference to the guillotine?

"It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history."

Is this a reference to the guillotine?

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