own of Feldkirch lay in a green valley, watered by the river Ill, among cloudy mountains dark with fir-trees. Up there, six thousand feet up, hung the Pass of Arlberg, military key to the Tyrol from the west. A medieval fortress overshadowed the town and the massive Jesuit school. Here Arthur found a discipline far less strict than at Stonyhurst; the dormitories were 'artificially heated; the food was good; the beer excellent. The students were mostly German boys from catholic families, with some twenty English and Irish. Arthur took ch
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