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Samenvatting van De Groene Muis
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- 11 parts
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A ruined magician, a girl who sees a green mouse, and a machine that matches soulmates by wireless spark.
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De Groene Muis in het kort
Samenvatting: 8 min leestijd
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- 1910by Robert W. Chambers
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De Groene Muis in short
The Green Mouse is a string of linked comic romances held together by one absurd invention. A ruined young man finds that his skill with magic and animals wins him a bride, and his invention becomes the basis of a company matching destined partners. The Carr sisters meet courtship through games, accidents and disobedience, while Flavilla insists on taking her chances without the machine.
What De Groene Muis is about
What does a ruined young gentleman do when his only assets are conjuring skills and a strange power over animals? In The Green Mouse, Robert W. Chambers opens with just such a man.
An inventor builds a tiny machine that catches a person's psychic waves and sends them to the one partner fate has chosen. You follow the Carr family through comic courtships, watched over by a company that sells love by wireless.
Voor wie is het?. You will love this book if you enjoy quick, funny romances, absurd inventions and a father who bellows through a monocle. It suits readers who like a good laugh at fate, money and matchmaking.
The story in 11 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A ruined gentleman discovers his one talent
Destyn's fortune has vanished with the collapse of Steel. He has never earned a penny, and he has no idea how other people do it. When his goods are sold, every creditor is paid, and he is left with almost nothing.
What remains is a skill at conjuring, joined to a strange power over animals. So he rents two rooms on Central Park West and practices for a tour of rich summer resorts.
One May afternoon he sits on a park bench. A black horse charges at him, and he is hurled down and dragged before he grips its bit. He calms the animal with a few whispered words, and the scratched, bewildered rider is eighteen. Losing everything pushes him to use the talent he always had.
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A first job and a very poor week
The girl thanks him in a rush and gallops away, and the young man goes back to his struggle.
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A neighbor asks about a green mouse
He opens the door, and there stands the girl from the next studio.
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A private show ends in a proposal
He fills the air with canaries and links silver hoops that seem solid.
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A family society chooses a victim by chance
Some time later the Carr sisters meet to organize a society.
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A stuck elevator becomes a courtship
Soon afterward the Carr family prepares to leave for Tuxedo, but Sacharissa decides to stay home, and she cannot say why.
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A bachelor follows a feeling across New York
Two friends, Beekman Brown and James Vanderdynk Smith, ride the subway toward a house party.
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A closed house, a coal bin and a confession
Betty goes into the cellar to coax the cat out, and she falls into the coal bin.
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A girl glued to a table meets a paperhanger
The triplets Flavilla, Drusilla and Sybilla have just finished fencing when their father demands to know who entered his laboratory.
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A nation weds by machine while one girl refuses
The Green Mouse company plans a great white marble central station on Madison Avenue, with a marriage-license bureau and a chapel.
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The book mocks science, money and courtship
The book is built as a chain of short comic episodes.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- William Augustus Destyn A ruined young gentleman with a gift for magic and animals, who invents the wireless machine that finds destined partners.
- Ethelinda Carr The painter who sees a green mouse, loves the young magician at once, and becomes his wife and partner.
- Bushwyck Carr A bald, bellowing millionaire and president of a wireless trust, who wants his daughters safe and his profits large.
- Sacharissa Carr The eldest sister, honest and sensible, who insists on keeping her word even when it puts her in the machine's path.
- Beekman Brown A lawyer who laughs at psychic currents until a strange feeling sends him after a girl and her cat.
- Betty A quick-witted girl in a white summer dress who loves her cat Clarence and fears being told whom she must marry.
- Sybilla Carr A fencing triplet who disobeys her father and touches the machine, then braces herself for a man named George.
- Flavilla Carr The last unmarried triplet, who refuses the machine and wants to take her chances with men.
How it ends (spoiler)
Flavilla, singing the Lorelei on a rock in her fish-tailed costume, lures Henry Kingsbury into the water, and he swims out and tells her he loves her. She admits she cares and cannot yet say love. They quarrel, make up and become engaged. At last they eat sandwiches together on a sandspit, sure of trouble ahead and happy about it, though neither of them ever used the machine.
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What is The Green Mouse about?
It is a romantic comedy about a family that forms a company to offer mechanical matchmaking with a person's destined partner. The Carr sisters find romance in funny, unexpected ways, but Flavilla refuses to use the machine.
What does the green mouse mean in the book?
The green mouse begins as a dyed white mouse used in a magician's act, which frightens a neighbor. It then becomes the emblem and name of the matchmaking society, appearing on its calling cards.
Is The Green Mouse a true story?
No. It is a made-up comedy that mocks interest in psychic currents and wireless telegraphy. Its machine is a joke, and the book never settles whether the machine really causes the couples to fall in love.
Who are the main characters in The Green Mouse?
They are William Augustus Destyn, the inventor, and the Carr family, led by the bellowing Bushwyck Carr and his daughters Ethelinda, Sacharissa and the triplets. Beekman Brown and the girl Betty also take center stage.
Is The Green Mouse easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that matters. The chapters are short and full of lively dialogue, funny set pieces and clear, quick action. Each love story can be enjoyed on its own, so the book is easy to pick up.
Verwijs naar deze uitgave
Chambers, Robert W. The Green Mouse. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-green-mouse.
Chambers, R. W. (2026). The green mouse. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-green-mouse (Original work published 1910)
Chambers, Robert W. The Green Mouse. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-green-mouse.
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note = {First published 1910}
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