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Translator: S. E. A. H. Stephenson
THE BREAKING OF THE STORM.
THE
BREAKING OF THE STORM.
BY FRIEDRICH SPIELHAGEN.
LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON. 1877.
THE BREAKING OF THE STORM.
The weather had grown worse towards evening. The groups of navvies on their way to the new railroad at Sundin cowered closer together between the piled-up barrels, casks, and chests on the fore-deck, while the passengers had almost disappeared from the poop. Two elderly gentlemen who had been talking a good deal together during the journey now stood on the starboard side, looking at the island round which the steamer had to pass to the south-west, and whose level shores, sweeping in broad curves towards the promontory, appeared every moment more distinctly.
"So that is Warnow?"
"No. I beg your pardon, President--that is Ahlbeck, a fishing village, which is, however, on the Warnow estates. Warnow itself lies farther inland. You can just see the church tower over the edge of the dunes."
The President dropped the eye-glass with which he had vainly searched for the tower.
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