[The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev]@TWC D-Link bookThe Crushed Flower and Other Stories CHAPTER VI 6/13
But she may be a good woman.
Do you know ?" "How should I know, when I have never seen your wife ?" "True, true, Mary! But what think you, are thirty pieces of silver a large sum? Is it not rather a small one ?" "I should say a small one." "Certainly, certainly.
How much did you get when you were a harlot, five pieces of silver or ten? You were an expensive one, were you not ?" Mary Magdalene blushed, and dropped her head till her luxuriant, golden hair completely covered her face, so that nothing but her round white chin was visible. "How bad you are, Judas; I want to forget about that, and you remind me of it!" "No, Mary, you must not forget that.
Why should you? Let others forget that you were a harlot, but you must remember.
It is the others who should forget as soon as possible, but you should not.
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