And lo! the little Thomas, too, changed into a grey spot, and suddenly--all disappeared round a turn in the road.
Looking round, Judas went down from the road and with immense leaps descended into the depths of a rocky ravine.

His clothes blew out with the speed and abruptness of his course, and his hands were extended upwards as though he would fly.

Lo! now he crept along an abrupt declivity, and suddenly rolled down in a grey ball, rubbing off his skin against the stones; then he jumped up and angrily threatened the mountain with his fist-- "You too, damn you!" Suddenly he changed his quick movements into a comfortable, concentrated dawdling, chose a place by a big stone, and sat down without hurry.

He turned himself, as if seeking a comfortable position, laid his hands side by side on the grey stone, and heavily sank his head upon them.
And so for an hour or two he sat on, as motionless and grey as the grey stone itself, so still that he deceived even the birds.

The walls of the ravine rose before him, and behind, and on every side, cutting a sharp line all round on the blue sky; while everywhere immense grey stones obtruded from the ground, as though there had been at some time or other, a shower here, and as though its heavy drops had become petrified in endless split, upturned skull, and every stone in it was like a petrified thought; and there were many of them, and they all kept thinking heavily, boundlessly, stubbornly.
A scorpion, deceived by his quietness, hobbled past, on its tottering legs, close to Judas.