Headnote Vignette
7 cm high by 4.3 cm wide (3 inches by 1 ¾ inches)
John McLenan
25 June 1859
Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Book II, Chapter 8, "Monseigneur in the Country."
Harper's Weekly, Vol. III, No. 131 (2 July 1859): 421; this text previously appeared in the UK in All the Year Round on 25 June 1859.
Passage illustrated
"At the steepest point of the hill there was a little burial-ground, with a Cross and a new large figure of Our Saviour on it; it was a poor figure in wood, done by some inexperienced rustic carver, but he had studied the figure from the life — his own life, maybe — for it was dreadfully spare and thin."
To this distressful emblem of a great distress that had long been growing worse, and was not at its worst, a woman was kneeling. She turned her head as the carriage came up to her, rose quickly, and presented herself at the carriage-door.
"It is you, Monseigneur! Monseigneur, a petition." [Book the Second, "The Golden Thread," Chapter VII, "Monseigneur in the Country," 422]
Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.