Book 1, Chapter 5 (The Wine-shop)
The crowd lapping up wine from the cobblestones; a tall joker writes 'BLOOD' on a wall with wine-dipped finger.
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From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The broken wine cask in Saint Antoine stains the streets and people red, an unmistakable prefiguration of revolutionary bloodshed.
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