"He 'scrawled upon a

wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine lees — blood.' — illustration for "A Tale of Two Cities" by John McLenan (original) (raw)

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A white-haired man sat
on a low bench, stooping forward and very busy, making shoes. "He 'scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine lees — blood"

John McLenan

Harper's Weekly (21 May 1859): 325

[Text appeared previously in the UK in All the Year Round on 7 and 14 May 1859 as two installments — PVA]

Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Book I, Chapter 5, "The Wine-Shop" (Gaspard, "one tall joker," prophesies the annihilation of the French aristocracy)

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