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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aBassett, Sara Ware,
_d1872-1968
245 1 4 _aThe Green Dolphin
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-22
508 _aSteve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _aThe 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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cPhiladelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1926
653 _aFamily-owned business enterprises -- Fiction
653 _aNew England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
653 _aManners and customs -- Fiction
653 _aMan-woman relationships -- Fiction
653 _aHusband and wife -- Fiction
653 _aTearooms -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78005
999 _c118725
_d118725