Explain the cup is a detail, a small uncharred finger from the mid-century bonfire

Explain the cup is a detail, a small uncharged finger from the mid-century bonfire.

this is b. how railways dealt with people riding the trains without paying

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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