The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Author:Edmund de Waal [Waal, Edmund de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780374105976
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010-08-30T04:00:00+00:00
20. HEIL WIEN! HEIL BERLIN!
The century is fourteen years old, and so is Elisabeth, a serious young girl who is allowed to sit at dinner with the grown-ups. These are ‘men of distinction, high civil servants, professors and high-ranking officers in the army’ and she listens to the talk of politics, but is told not to talk herself unless she is talked to. She walks with her father to the bank each morning. She is building up her own library in her bedroom: each new book has a neat EE in pencil and a number.
Gisela is a pretty young girl of ten who enjoys clothes. Iggie is a boy of nine who is slightly overweight and self-conscious about it; he isn’t good at maths, but likes drawing very much indeed.
Summer arrives, and the children travel to Kövecses with Emmy. She has ordered a new costume, black with pleating to the blouse, for riding Contra, her favourite bay.
On Sunday 28th June 1914 the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Hapsburg Empire, is assassinated in Sarajevo by a young Serbian nationalist. On Thursday the Neue Freie Presse writes that ‘the political consequences of this act are being greatly exaggerated’.
On the following Saturday, Elisabeth writes a postcard to Vienna:
4th July 1914
Dearest Papa
Thank you so much for arranging about the Professors for next term. Today it was very warm in the morning so we could all go swimming in the lake but now it is colder and it may rain. I went to Pistzan with Gerty and Eva and Witold but I didn’t like it very much. Toni has had nine puppies, one has died and we have to feed them with a bottle. Gisela likes her new clothes. A thousand kisses.
Your Elisabeth
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