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Reulah sat motionless, his mouth agape, a finger extended. “The paramour of Pandera,” he stammered at last; and lowering his eyes, he looked at her covetously from beneath the lids. Simon, too, sat motionless. There was rage in his expression, hate even—that hatred which the beautiful excites in the base.
For a moment he played with his beard. “I think,” he added, “that he will find here food in plenty, and counsel as well.” Reulah closed his eyes benignly, and Simon, in a falsetto which he affected when he desired to impress, continued in gentle menace: “But I have certain questions to put to him. Whether water from an unclean vessel defiles that which is clean.
Simon assumed an air of perplexity, and glanced cunningly from one guest to another. Presently he laughed outright. “Why, the one who owed the most, of course.” Reulah suppressed a giggle. By the expression of the others it was patent that to them also the jest appealed. Only Judas did not seem to have heard; he sat bolt upright, fumbling Mary with his violent eyes.
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