The House That Shadows Built (1928)

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THE ORPHAN OF RICSE 13 provide for their higher education — often the official guardians granted to a promising orphan boy a part of his capital in advance of his twenty-first year. With care, economy, and sacrifice, it might be done. And his dead sister, true to her family tradition, had wished to dedicate these sons of hers to religion. Rabbi Kalman Liebermann decided to accept the burden; and in a country diligence, Adolph and Arthur journeyed to Szalka. There followed six years of close living in a village parsonage, and of peaceful monotony. The orphans entered the common school at Szalka. Arthur had already a year or two of primary education; but it was a new experience for Adolph. Arthur was born with the gift of expression. He went ahead fast — the bright boy of every class in which he found himself. Also, he was beginning to show that spirituality which marked his mature career. He was always playing at preaching, with his schoolmates, his cousins, and Adolph as congregation. As for Adolph — it was harder to tell. Somewhat under the shadow of this brilliant elder brother, he turned out a quiet boy with a placid front overlying a hot temper. He showed little or none of the family talent for expression. His favourite study was geography; but he got his best marks in arithmetic. In Hungarian language and literature he graded only fair; and in German, then a required study of all schools in the Dual Monarchy,