daenemark

Updated: May 13, 2025

Three-parts of the way we covered in forty- five minutes, the last two miles took us twenty. When we arrived at the hotel, there stood Madam Esselbach, of war renown, in the doorway, with her hands on her hips, as in her portrait; she summed up the arrivals with shrewd, sharp eyes, and exclaimed: "Das ist ja das junge Daenemark." Inside, officers were sitting, playing cards.

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - Recollections of My Childhood and Youth