Help the gentleman to take her out. Don't you see she will fall!" (Dickens, A Disappointment) .
Only one year after meeting her, Carton says to Lucie, "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have hear whispers from old voices impending me upward, that I thought were silent forever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he law down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it. (Dickens, The Fellow of No Delicacy) By saying this, he means that meeting her and seeing her interact and care for her father has brought him more joy than he can remember feeling. Just after he makes this declaration of love he makes the promise, "If my career were of that better kind that there was any opportunity or capacity of sacrifice in it, I would embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you (Dickens, The Fellow of No Delicacy) This is a promise that he keeps by being executed in the place of Charles. As he is saying goodbye to Little Lucie right before he leaves to go meet with Charles at the prison on the day before his execution she ran to him, leapt in his arms sobbing begging him to save her father, "It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched his face with her lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say 'A Life you love'" (Dickens, Dusk) As he walks to the guillotine to be executed in Charles' place, he sees all of the people that have lead him to that point.
