[I.N.R.I. by Peter Rosegger]@TWC D-Link bookI.N.R.I. CHAPTER XI 18/19
She waited up the whole night. The next morning the little town rang with the news: "The carpenter has been seen with the preacher.
He has been baptized." "That's just like him.
One enthusiast keeps company with another." "It would be more correct to say with false prophets.
For what else is it when a man declares that he can wash away sin with a dash of water ?" Thereupon a Sidonian donkey-driver, who had come down the street; "That's excellent! You Israelites can do so much with your ablutions. That would be a capital thing!" "Ah! what things one hears! Everything points to the speedy destruction of the world." And one whispered in his ear, "I tell you, frankly, 'twould be no great misfortune." "Now John has caught it.
Do you know what he's always shouting ?" "The young carpenter, his apprentice? He's never said anything that matters." "Do you know what he's always exclaiming? He strides through the streets, and his hair flies in the wind.
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