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In order to insure perfection, and prevent stage fright, so to speak, it had been arranged that Brum should rehearse his reading of the _Sedrah_ on Friday in the synagogue itself, at an hour when it was free from worshippers. This rehearsal, his mother thought, was now all the more necessary to screw up Brum's confidence, but the father argued that as all places were now alike to the blind boy, the prominence of a public platform and a large staring audience could no longer unnerve him.
"But he will _feel_ them there! " Zillah protested.