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Read The Green Dolphin in English, with German beside it
by Sara Ware Bassett · 1872–1968
The Green Dolphin by Sara Ware Bassett is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set on Cape Cod, it follows shy, orderly bachelor Asaph Holmes, whose marriage to the lively Althea Morton disrupts his comfortable routines and tests his bond with his guileless friend Lemuel Gill, all while a seaside tea-room called the Green Dolphin becomes their new venture. Blending humor and heart, it paints a small-town portrait of friendship, marriage, and community chatter. The opening of the novel introduces Asaph’s eccentric, paper‑strewn bachelor life (rescued at intervals by stern housecleaner Hannah Dole), his sudden enchantment with Althea at the Brewsters’, and his anxious secrecy with his closest friend, Lemmy. He marries Althea in a quiet ceremony, Lemmy earns her goodwill with a heartfelt bouquet, and Belleport buzzes with curiosity as Althea refreshes the cottage and the trio settles into a winter routine with small frictions. Come spring, Althea’s hunger for sociability sparks a bold plan: a tea-room—the Green Dolphin—complete with green-painted chairs, stenciled dolphins, and a roadside sign, while Asaph, dubious but devoted, does the handiwork as she advertises widely. On the very eve of opening, Althea rushes to help her sister in Abington after a child’s accident, leaving a bewildered Asaph to face the first day alone as Lemmy arrives, astonished, to find the Dolphin about to launch without its captain.
Summary generated automatically by Project Gutenberg.
- Read time
- 291 min
- Words
- 63,947
- Chapters
- 23
- Paragraphs
- 2,182
- Price
- Free
- Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction
- Husband and wife -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Manners and customs -- Fiction
- New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Tearooms -- Fiction
Lemuel knew all about the Green Dolphin, oh, yes, indeed!
Lemuel wusste alles über die Grüne Delphin, oh, ja, wirklich!
Had he not followed its progress step by step?
Hatte er nicht ihren Fortschritt Schritt für Schritt verfolgt?
He always knew everything with which Asaph Holmes was concerned, and Asaph expected he would.
Er wusste immer alles, mit dem sich Asaph Holmes beschäftigte, und Asaph erwartete, dass er das tat.
But today, for some reason the Captain’s leisurely attitude toward life and the inquisitive gleam in his sharp blue eyes irritated his comrade,
Aber heute irritierte ihn aus irgendeinem Grund die gemächliche Haltung des Kapitäns gegenüber dem Leben und der neugierige Glanz in seinen scharfen blauen Augen, sein Kamerad,
who turned away and began bustling about the piazza in the hope of conveying the impression that he was too busy for gossip.
der sich abwandte und begann, auf der Veranda zu hantieren, in der Hoffnung, den Eindruck zu vermitteln, dass er zu beschäftigt für Klatsch war.
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Book details
- Original language
- English
- Translation
- German, machine translation
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #78005
- Licence
- Public domain in the United States
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