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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ELSBETH CHAPTER I THE START PUNCTUALLY at eleven A. M., the time scheduled for her May voyage, the S. S. Patria, of the Hamburg-American line, left Hoboken, to carry a precious freight of passengers across the Atlantic. At the moment of her departure there was, as is usual on such occasions, an indescribable din and confusion, a wild medley of sound, color and motion such as only an American crowd on an American steamer is capable of producing. A few minutes later, the docks with their surging, chaotic mass of human forms, their motley display of waving banners, hats and sunshades had passed completely out of sight, ?and out of the mind of most of the passengers. In a few extremely sensitive, memories there might still be lingering, perhaps, the vision of some tearful faceon the docks; in others, still echoed fragments of the patriotic tunes that the steward band had played as the Patria sailed off. America the Beautiful, a smooth-shaven, keen-eyed Yankee softly whistled to himself as he gazed after the vanishing vista of skyscrapers. Deutschland, Deutschland iiber alles, 1 dreamily hummed a bearded old German at the railing of the second-class deck as, looking eastward, his wide-set gray eyes drank in the measureless blue distance. Himmelherrgott,2?I completely forgot about those steamer chairs the man suddenly excla.imed, interrupting his humming as he glanced down on the lower deck. Here a large group of people, chiefly of the artisan and farmer type, but with a sprinkling of peaked- looking schoolma'ams among the women, were paying their chair fees and arranging for desirable places on deck. Ja, Frau Jansen;?jawohl, Fraulein Haber- meyer;?gleich, Herr Schulze;?schon, Miss Green, 3 the blond steward in the center of the group assured his petitioners i...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217944748 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217944744 |
| Weight | 0.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 158 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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