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The Crushed Flower and Other Stories

CHAPTER I
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On the other side were no wrinkles.

It was deadly flat, smooth, and set, and though of the same size as the other, it seemed enormous on account of its wide-open blind eye.

Covered with a whitish film, closing neither night nor day, this eye met light and darkness with the same indifference, but perhaps on account of the proximity of its lively and crafty companion it never got full credit for blindness.
When in a paroxysm of joy or excitement, Judas would close his sound eye and shake his head.

The other eye would always shake in unison and gaze in silence.

Even people quite devoid of penetration could clearly perceive, when looking at Judas, that such a man could bring no good....
And yet Jesus brought him near to Himself, and once even made him sit next to Him.


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