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THE ORPHAN OF RICSE
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Within six months, his industry and intelligence made him the favourite apprentice. The Blaus, and especially the large brood of Blau daughters, liked him; virtually took him into the family. Though comparatively uneducated, they were reading people; and they shared their books with him. It was not “serious reading,” however. They liked adventure and romance, a kind of literature which Kalman Liebermann excluded from his own library as frivolous and dispiritualizing. Adolph devoured the standard Hungarian novelists, and, in translation, the great western European romancers like Dumas and DeFoe. Also, the American dime novel — translated, of course — enjoyed a vogue in Hungary. Just as in the land of its origin, careful parents forbade the dime novel to children. However, one of the younger Blau girls was secretly an addict; and she slipped worn copies on to Adolph. From their tales of Indians and cowboys, of poor boys suddenly grown rich, he found a romantic picture of America. Probably the American dime novel was the primary cause of his subsequent migration.
But for this taste of the Blaus he would have gone unbooked. His apprenticeship furnished his board and lodging and Rothing more. Twice a year, he drew upon the little estate of his father a requisition for his other necessities. His first experience taught him to ask for more than he needed. One suit of clothes, one hat, one pair of shoes, so many shirts, suits of underwear, socks