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"I wish to betray the Nazarene to you." Both held their peace, and continued to gaze attentively at each other. Iscariot's look was calm; but a quiet malice, dry and cold, began slightly to prick Annas, like the early morning rime of winter. "How much do you want for your Jesus?" "How much will you give?"
If she be asked to stay, Uncle says, she may please herself, for he knows she can be trusted: but if Grandmamma or my Aunt Dorothea do not ask her, then she goes on with Annas to her friends, who, Annas says, will be quite delighted to see her. I do so wish that Flora might stay with me! This afternoon we went over to Monksburn to say farewell.
Why should Ephraim not do things for Annas? I was an older friend, it is true, but that was all. I had no more claim on him than any one else. I recognised that clearly enough: yet I could not banish the feeling that I was sorry for it. When Ephraim came, I thought he looked exceeding grave. Grandmamma took a pinch of snuff over it, and then said that Caesar might call me a chair.
"Charming, charming," said the newcomers, advancing towards her and embracing the room and the tables and the Annas in one immense inclusive smile of appreciation. "Know those?" asked Mr. Ridding, again cutting into Mr. Twist's explanations. "No," said he. "Wangelbeckers," said Mr. Ridding briefly. "Indeed," said Mr. Twist, off whose ignorance the name glanced harmlessly.
He, therefore, waited out of bed to see what the upshot was to be; and those who took Jesus brought Him to Annas first. But whatever interrogation Annas may have subjected Him to was entirely informal. It allowed time, however, to get together the Sanhedrim. Messengers were dispatched to scour the city for the members at the midnight hour, because the case was urgent and could not brook delay.
When we went up to bed, Annas came to me as I stood folding my shoulder-knots, and laid a hand on each of my shoulders from behind. "Cary, we must say `good-bye, I think. I scarce expected it. But Mrs Desborough's face, when my song was ended, had `good-bye' in it." "O Annas!" said I. "Surely she would never be angry with you for a mere song!
"Anyhow she'll never hear the Annas saying anything," thought Mr. Twist, consoling himself. "This hotel we're going to seems to be located at some distance from the station," said Mrs. Bilton presently, in the middle of several pages of rapid unpunctuated monologue. "Isolated, surely " and off she went again to other matters, just as Mr. Twist had got his mouth open to explain at last.
At this the shopkeeper suffered himself to be persuaded and lent him the anna. With this the blacksmith's son went off to a second shop and begged for the loan of four annas, as he had pressing need of it; he promised to pay an anna a week interest, and to pay down at once the interest for the first week. After some hesitation the shopkeeper was deceived into lending the four annas.
If so, a third source of danger ariseth. The wrath of Pilate is the wrath of Rome a political danger ever deadly. The wrath of the High Priest Annas is a religious wrath, cunning, and cruel as the grave.
Make haste and rough-cut my head. Kim shifted from foot to foot, his eyes ablaze with mirth as he thought of the fat days before him. He gave the girl four annas, and ran down the stairs in the likeness of a low-caste Hindu boy perfect in every detail. A cookshop was his next point of call, where he feasted in extravagance and greasy luxury.
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