It has long been the custom of the North German Lloyd steamers,which
convey passengers from Bremen to New York, to anchor forseveral hours in
the pleasant port of
Southampton, where their humancargo
receives many additions. An intelligent young German, CountOtto
Vogelstein, hardly knew a few years ago whether to condemn
thiscustom
or approve it. He leaned over the bulwarks of the moncler coats
Donau ugg boots uk asthe American passengers crossed the plank--the
travellers who embarkat
Southampton are mainly of that
nationality--and curiously,indifferently, vaguely, through the smoke of
his cigar, saw themabsorbed in
pandora bracelet the huge capacity of the ship, where he had theagreeable consciousness that his own nest
was
comfortably made. Towatch from such a point of vantage the struggles
of those lessfortunate than ourselves--of the uninformed, the
unprovided, thebelated, the
bewildered--is an occupation not
devoid of sweetness,and there was nothing short to mitigate the
complacency with our young friend gave himself up to it; nothing, that
is, save a naturalbenevolence which had not yet been extinguished by the
pandora bracelets
consciousnessof official greatness. For Count Vogelstein was
official, as Ithink you would have seen from the straightness of his
back ,thelustre of his light elegant
spectacles, and something
discreet anddiplomatic in the curve of his moustache, which looked
as if itmight well contribute to the principal function, as cynics
say,
ofthe lips--the active concealment of thought. He had been appointedto the secretaryship of the German legation
pandora charms at Washington and inthese first days of the autumn was about to take possession of
hispost.
He was a model character for such a purpose--serious
civilceremonious curious stiff, stuffed with knowledge and
convincedthat, as lately rearranged, the
German Empire places
in the moststriking light the highest of all the possibilities of
the greatestof all the peoples . He was quite aware, however, of the
claims
toeconomic and other consideration of the United States, and that thisquarter of the globe offered a vast field for study.