Chapter 21 fourth quarter

Lisa once hesitated between two desires in arranging her child's education: on the one hand, she wanted him to receive the latest curative effects of modern children's psychiatric treatment, and on the other hand, she wanted to find the closest Greek religion in the American religious system. The graceful and healthy amenity of Orthodoxy, the mild Church's demands on the conscience, pale in comparison with the consolations it affords. Little Victor first attended a progressive kindergarten in New Jersey, and then, on the advice of some Russian friends, transferred to a day school there.The school was run by an Anglican priest who proved to be a bright and gifted educator with a fondness for some fine children, however eccentric and mischievous they might be; Victor was certainly eccentric but quiet.At the age of twelve, he entered St. Bartholomew's school.

The St. Bartos School was established in 1869 as an awkward mass of red brick houses just outside Clanton, Massachusetts.The main building occupies three sides of the Dafang courtyard, and the other side is the corridor passage.A gleaming layer of American ivy climbed the wall outside the gatehouse of Angle Court, and a stone Celtic cross stood somewhat top-heavy on top.The ivy blows in the wind like a mane on a horse's back.People naively thought that the color of the red bricks would become more and more beautiful with the passage of time, but the good and old red bricks of San Bartos School looked dirty.Immediately above the supposed but silent arch of the front door, under the cross, is carved a dagger or something, intended to symbolize the Holy Spirit (recorded in the Vienna Missal). The butcher knife held by Bartholomew angrily, he was one of the twelve disciples of Christ, and it was this apostle who lived in Albanopolis in the summer around AD 65 - today's Dyer in southeastern Russia. Bant - was skinned alive, and the dead body was bitten by flies.His coffin was thrown into the Caspian by an enraged monarch and drifted downwind to the island of Libari, off the coast of Sicily—perhaps only a legend, given that the Caspian has been an inland sea since the Ice Age.The weapon that served as the prophet's coat of arms—resembling a carrot pointing upwards—behind a stele bearing the inscription glittering in gold: "Take your heart to heaven." On the lawn in front of the gate , you can always see two tame English sheepdogs raised by a teacher, inseparable even for a moment, taking a nap in their paradise.

On her first visit to the school, Lisa admired everything about it, from the handball field and the chapel to the statues in the corridors and the pictures of the church in the classrooms.The dormitories in which all the students of the three lower grades were assigned had alcoves with windows, and at the end there was a room where the teacher lived.Visitors to the school cannot but appreciate the beautiful gymnasium.Also lovely are the oak chairs and girder roof in the chapel, a Romanesque building donated half a century ago by a wool merchant named Julius Schünberg, who was Brother of the world-renowned Egyptologist Samuel Schünberg who died in the Messina earthquake.There were twenty-five teachers in the school, and the headmaster, the Reverend Archibald Hopper, who carried out his duties on warm days in elegant gray monk's robes, had nothing to do with a plot to drive him away. don't know.