[The Promised Land by Mary Antin]@TWC D-Link bookThe Promised Land CHAPTER VI 32/59
They looked _different_.
When they awoke and stretched themselves and adjusted wig and cap, they looked _very_ strange.
As she went to get her grandmother her Bible, and dropped it accidentally, she kissed it by way of atonement just as a proper child should. How, I wonder, would this Psalm-singing child have be enlabelled by the investigator of her mind? Would he have called her a Jew? She was too young to be called an apostate.
Perhaps she would have been dismissed as a little fraud; and I should be content with that classification, if slightly modified.
I should say the child was a piteously puzzled little fraud. To return to the honest first person, I _was_ something of a fraud. The days when I believed everything I was told did not run much beyond my teething time.
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