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PARISIAN SCENES A TALE OF TWO CITIES I THE WINE-SHOP A Large cask
of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. The accident
had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out
with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just
outside the door of the wine-shop, shattered like a walnut-shell.
All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their
idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine. The rough,
irregular stones of the street, pointing every way, and designed,
one might have thought, expressly to lame all living creatures that
approached them, had dammed it into little pools; these were
surrounded, each by its own jostling group or crowd, according to
its size. Some men kneeled down, made scoops of their two hands
joined, and sipped, or tried to help women, who bent over their
shoulders, to sip, before the wine had all run out between their
fingers. Others, men and women, dipped in the puddles with little
mugs of mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from
women's heads, which were squeezed dry into infants' mouths; others
made small mud-embankments, to stem the L. p. s. l wine as it ran;
others, directed by lookers-on up at high windows, darted here and
there, to cut off little streams of wine that started away in new
directions; others devoted themselves to the sodden and lee-dyed
pieces of the cask, licking, and even champing the moister
wine-rotted fragments with eager relish. There was no drainage to
carry off the wine, and not only did it all get taken up, but so
much mud got taken up along with it, that there might have been a
scavenger in the street, if anybody acquainted with it could have
believed in such a miraculous presence. A shrill sound of laughter
and of amused voices? voices o...
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