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The Crushed Flower and Other Stories

CHAPTER III
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But what is a poisonous snake?
One has but to draw its fangs, and it will coil round one's neck like a necklace.

What is a mountain, which it is possible to dig down with the hands, and to trample with the feet?
I would give to Him Judas, the bold, magnificent Judas.

But now He will perish, and together with him will perish Judas." "You are speaking strangely, Judas!" "A withered fig-tree, which must needs be cut down with the axe, such am I: He said it of me.

Why then does He not do it?
He dare not, Thomas! I know him.

He fears Judas.


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