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Herr Lajos von Kekesfalva was originally a young Jewish boy named Kanitz who tried to work his way up in the world. He is a small man with spectacles, bony hands, and a bony head with a receding hairline. Eventually he met a woman whom he talked into selling him her estate for a third of its value, thereby making him a wealthy land owner. Feeling bad about the deal, he married the young woman. Their only child, Edith, was a light in both their eyes.