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Later the Polish
lad sported familiarly with his talents, for he is related to
have sent to sleep and awakened a party of unruly boys at his
father's school. Another story is his fooling of a Jew merchant.
He had high spirits, perhaps too high, for his slender physique.
He was a facile mimic, and Liszt, Balzac, Bocage, Sand and others
believed that he would have made an actor of ability. With his
sister Emilia he wrote a little comedy. Altogether he was a
clever, if not a brilliant lad. His letters show that he was not
the latter, for while they are lively they do not reveal much
literary ability. But their writer saw with open eyes, eyes that
were disposed to caricature the peculiarities of others. This
trait, much clarified and spiritualized in later life, became a
distinct, ironic note in his character. Possibly it attracted
Heine, although his irony was on a more intellectual plane.
His piano playing at this time was neat and finished, and he had
already begun those experimentings in technique and tone that
afterward revolutionized the world of music and the keyboard.


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