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by Charles Dickens in English Moral Stories

A TALE OF TWO CITIES A STORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION By Charles Dickens Recalled to Life (5) The Wine-shop A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. The accident had happened in getting ...Read Moreout 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 Read Less