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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: CHAPTER II. QUARTERS. A Dutch Landlord?A German Landlady?The outskirts of Rheins- berg? The Sand?' To Mirow'?My Fellow-lodgers. Having made up my mind to get out of the Rathskeller as soon as possible, but to continue afterwards on the most friendly and neighbourly footing with all belonging to it, I told the landlord the next forenoon that I might perhaps stay in Rheinsberg for a week or two if I could find lodgings anywhere. I said I knew I must be very much in his way in the great room which he had given me and which he must so often have need of.?He had smaller rooms.?I did not like the ground floor.? But upstairs there were Oh, I was sure he must constantly be in want of all his single rooms for travellers, particularly commercial travellers. I should not like to put him about, perhaps be the cause of his offending old customers. Did he not think he could find lodgings for me anywhere? Quite near, if possible, so that I should be the more easily able to eat and drink at the Rathskeller. This conversation, being held in the principaltap-room, was listened to by some of the townsfolks who were drinking their early beer. . ' He's a Dutchman, he, ' they said to me, nodding at the landlord and introducing him; ' he'll do what you tell him.' The said landlord was, in fact, an uncommonly big, burly, and red-haired personage, whom in my heart I did not admire. And it turned out that he and his wife and her brother, the head waiter, had all immigrated some years before from Oranienburg, a place not very many miles distant, originally founded by a Dutch Princess.0 Judging by what Fontane says, the inn must have been a more comfortable place before they got it into their hands. And it struck me that the burghers, owing doubtless to this foreign descent of his, treate...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217277402 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217277403 |
| Weight | 0.72 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 216 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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