Who would have thought that now, at this age, there is more to tie her to home than ever?
Sacrifice is when a ten-year-old takes off his boots and gives them to his six-year-old brother, for his brother will tremble from the cold and he can manage by simply wrapping his feet in rags.
What is this woman calling sacrifice? That her husband found his way to the baptismal font. As if it is an act of nobility. As if Yiddishkeit is a luxury, something that can be given up for a higher ideal, in this case, the advancement of his family.
“Money and connections are not the only things that make a good life, Frau von Albrecht.”
A sniff. “Oh, I know what you will say. A good life is a moral life. Morals. Well, yes, morals protect society and all of that. But morals also cause a parent to cast off a child, or a child to reject a parent. And so I put something above morals. Family.”
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