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Excerpt from An Eastern Voyage, Vol. 1: A Journal of the the Travels of Count Fritz Hochberg Through the British Empire in the East and Japan
Southampton, with its hurried travellers and many porters, put a real stop to these dreams, and the more than second-class hotel quite finished them. The night was very lively, because next door to me a Joe and a Charley lived, and they greeted a Harry with shouts and hallo's and where-do-you-come-from-old-boy's in the middle Of the night, and went on till it was almost time to get up. Even though one did not want, one couldn't help hearing all the details of their lives and sports and little girls, etc., etc. - Charley was going up North. I hope they'll have double doors to the bedrooms, North! It wouldn't quite do for lady lodgers to be next to him without. They might learn more about humanity than was welcome.
Why they have electric bells in that hotel I can't understand, because you might just as well have pressed on your sponge - nobody came. However, with patience and persistence, one managed to get what one wanted, and finally all my luggage (i refrain from saying how many pieces there were) was put on two cabs, and Off we went to the Bremen.
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