[The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev]@TWC D-Link bookThe Crushed Flower and Other Stories CHAPTER II 5/13
But at night, when Judas was already closing his vivid, restless eye for sleep, he suddenly said aloud from where he lay--the two now slept together on the roof-- "You are wrong, Judas.
I have very bad dreams.
What think you? Are people responsible for their dreams ?" "Does, then, any one but the dreamer see a dream ?" Judas replied. Thomas sighed gently, and became thoughtful.
But Judas smiled contemptuously, and firmly closed his roguish eye, and quickly gave himself up to his mutinous dreams, monstrous ravings, mad phantoms, which rent his bumpy skull to pieces. When, during Jesus' travels about Judaea, the disciples approached a village, Iscariot would speak evil of the inhabitants and foretell misfortune.
But almost always it happened that the people, of whom he had spoken evil, met Christ and His friends with gladness, and surrounded them with attentions and love, and became believers, and Judas' money-box became so full that it was difficult to carry.
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