DANIEL BROCKMANN was the most prosperous of the merchant-princes in the rich commercial city of Hamburg. He possessed two magnificent houses: one, conveniently situated near the harbour, containing the offices where his late and widely-extended business was despatched, the counting-house with its numerous clerks and accountants, and the enormous warehouses, in which were stored the products of every nation and climate; the other, quite regal in its grandeur, was an ornament to the "Young Ladies' Walk," a promenade on the banks of the "Alster Bassin," a kind of lake formed by an estuary of the little river "Alster" and whose beauty and style is peculiar to the city of Hamburg. This was his wi…
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