Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Second Cabin
The big steamer lay beside the dock. Passen gers looked over the rail at the families of peas ants on the pier, waiting to embark. They had come from all the Baltic states and stood shiver ing in the Wet February air, among their house hold goods.
Christiansen stood looking at them. He stared uninterestedly at the merchandise, as at the people, he thought only about himself, about his wife's health. A bulky man next him obtruded into Christiansen's revery. He waved an enormous hand toward the wharf.
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