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Mr Keith, I find, can draw beautifully, and they let me look through some of his portfolios, which was delightful. And when Annas, at her mother's desire, at down to the harpsichord, and sang us some old Scots songs, I thought I never heard anything so charming until Flora joined in, and then it was more delicious still. I think it would be easy to be good, if one lived at Monksburn!
At length Caiaphas inquired impatiently: "What do you want?" Judas bowed once more, and said in a loud voice "It is I, Judas Iscariot, who betrayed to you Jesus of Nazareth." "Well, what of that? You have received your due. Go away!" ordered Annas; but Judas appeared unconscious of the command, and continued bowing. Glancing at him, Caiaphas asked Annas: "How much did you give?"
But I am alive, Ivan Andreievitch, not a heroine in a book! Alive, alive, alive! Not one of your Lisas or Annas or Natashas. I'm alive enough to shoot Uncle Alexei and poison Nicholas but I'm soft too, soft so that I cannot bear to see a rabbit killed... and yet I love Sherry so that I am blind for him and deaf for him and dead for him when he is not there.
Kadir Baksh did not say that he had taken from each gang two annas for rent in advance, and then, beyond my earshot, had beaten them with the big green umbrella whose use I could never before divine. But Kadir Baksh has no notions of morality.
"Only," said Annas, "by the untiring efforts of your fathers has this nation escaped the abyss." Then cried the people, "Long live the council! Death to the Nazarene!" and the priests and Pharisees cried out, "Curse him who does not vote for his death!" The people responded, "We demand his death!"
Caiaphas answered and said, "We have a law and by our law he ought to die because he made himself the Son of God," while all the people shouted, "We all have heard the blasphemy from his own lips," and Annas added, "And upon that account we must insist that he suffers the legal punishment."
The soldiers who first arrested Jesus now dragged him roughly to the foot of the tribunal. The room was quite full, between soldiers, the servants of Annas, a number of the mob who had been admitted, and the false witnesses who afterwards adjourned to Caiphas's hall.
Not only were there two trials, but in each trial there were three separate stages or acts. In the first, or ecclesiastical trial, Jesus had first to appear before Annas, then before Caiaphas and the Sanhedrim during the night, and again before the same body after daybreak.
The ignorant Annas bless their little hearts, he thought, he who only the night before on that very spot had been calling them accursed believed that their £200 was easily going to do everything.
And these words, these terrible words, were tearing his throat asunder "He was no deceiver. He was innocent and pure. Do you hear? Judas deceived you. He betrayed to you an innocent man." He waits. He hears the aged, unconcerned voice of Annas, saying: "And is that all you want to say?" "You do not seem to have understood me," says Judas, with dignity, turning pale. "Judas deceived you.
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