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The inhabitants were a picturesque set of villains; dressed in their flowing robes surmounted by ancient goat skins, and with a dark fillet round their head-dresses, they brought back to one memories of old Bible pictures and there was hardly one of the men whose bearded features would not have made a splendid model for a picture of Judas Iscariot.
Every eye was fixed on the preacher, necks were strained forward, lips were parted the people held their breath. Again that clear, rich bell-like voice rang out in the repeated question: "Who, I repeat, was Judas Iscariot? Was he a man, in the usual acceptance of the term, or was he a demon incarnated? What does the Bible say about him?
"You come in with Judas Iscariot. Where you belong!" said Jimmie, severely. Bee howled. Mrs. Jimmie looked startled. "Nonsense!" I said, indignantly. "That is going a little too far. I won't be put there. I believe you asked 'em on purpose, just so that you could crow over me afterward." "You are getting slightly mixed," said Jimmie, politely.
He urged that his thorough acquaintance with the province should render him of value to the King, as also that he had had particular opportunities of becoming acquainted with many treasonable dealings on the part of men whom the State was far from suspecting." "Mort Dieu!" I cried, "I had suspected something of such a nature. You do well to call him of the family of the Iscariot.
He spoke thickly: "Do you know what that Judas Iscariot down there is doin' to us? Chargin' us twelve dollars a day for these two cubby-holes a day! Twelve dollars a day! Eighty-four dollars a week! And that breakfast was 'levum dollars and seventy-five cents! If I'd gave the waiter the quarter I was goin' to, it would have made an even dozen dollars! for breakfast!
Carlyle had many admirers, but few disciples, and he naturally set great value on Froude's adhesion. He had always a great contempt for universal suffrage. It would have given, he said grimly, the same voice in the government of Palestine to Jesus Christ and to Judas Iscariot.
From his six eyes the tears ran down, mingling at his three chins with bloody foam; for at every mouth he crushed a sinner with his teeth, as substances are broken up by an engine. The middle sinner was the worst punished, for he was at once broken and flayed, and his head and trunk were inside the mouth. It was Judas Iscariot.
"Of my treachery, you mean," rejoined the young man calmly, even though his face had suddenly become pale as death. "Of the damnable lie wherewith you cheated me into selling my honour, and made me what I am a creature scarce fit to walk upon this earth." "Oh!" protested Chauvelin blandly. "The damnable lie," continued Armand more vehemently, "that hath made me one with Cain and the Iscariot.
Juanita looked at him a moment, and then suddenly darted at him, caught him by the lapels of his coat and shook him like a terrier. "Are you sure that you did not love that Francisco? Speak!" "But I did," said Cranch, laughing and shaking between the clenching of the little hands. "Judas Iscariot! Swear you do not love her all this while." "But, Juanita!" "Swear!" Cranch swore.
What think you, gentle reader, of Solomon Sly, Reynard Fox, and Hiram Dolittle and Prudence Fidget; all veritable names, and belonging to substantial yeomen? After Ammon and Ichabod, I should not be at all surprised to meet with Judas Iscariot, Pilate, and Herod. And then the female appellations! But the subject is a delicate one and I will forbear to touch upon it.
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