Brief retelling of scarlet sails. Scarlet Sails Shrinking Scarlet Sails Chapter 1

Years of writing: 1916-1922

Genre: extravaganza story

Main characters: Assol is a young dreamer, Assol's father is a sailor Longren, the captain of the ship Arthur Gray.

Plot:

The action takes place in the fictional small town of Capernet. From the very first lines, we see how the writer shows the image of one of the main characters of Longren, a gloomy, taciturn man who lives in complete solitude with his daughter. This gloomy man is engaged in the manufacture of various models of sailboats, which he then sells. Such work helps him to somehow live. The townspeople do not like him because of an incident that happened many years ago.

Once Longren swam in the sea, and his wife always patiently waited for him from a long voyage. And one day, returning home, he finds out that his wife has died. The woman, having spent all her savings on her treatment due to difficult childbirth, was forced to turn to the innkeeper for help. But Menners, instead of helping the unfortunate petitioner, made her an indecent proposal. Having refused the shameless man, Mary went to the city to sell the last jewel.

Having caught a cold on the road, she falls ill with pneumonia. The poor woman quickly died out, since she had no money at all. Longren had to raise his daughter alone, hatred for the innkeeper burned in his soul. And now a convenient opportunity has turned up to take revenge on him. Once a strong storm arose, and suddenly a huge wave swept over Menners and began to carry him out to sea. But Longren, despite the pleas for help, stood silently and did not even try to pull him out of the water. A few days later, fellow villagers rescued the innkeeper, and before his death, he told about this episode.

After the incident, everyone in the city began to bypass this family. So they lived quietly and unnoticed by everyone. Assol was considered a crazy girl, because as a child, a storyteller told her that she would meet her lover in the form of a captain who would appear in front of her on a ship with scarlet sails. Everyone laughed at her, but the prophecy came true. And one day a handsome young man named Gray comes to their city. Despite the evil slander against the girl and her father, he falls in love with her and decides to make Assol's dream come true.

With his work, the author wanted to convey to us that boundless love and faith in good people that lived in Assol's heart. Green, on the image of a sweet girl, showed faith in the realization of an unfulfilled dream. After all, when you believe very strongly, then all your desires will surely come true.

Chapter 1

Reading the first pages of the story, we get acquainted with the sailor Longren, where we learn sad moments from the story of life. For a long time, sailing the seas, the man did not suspect how hard it was for his wife. Barely recovering from childbirth, she falls ill. No one can help the unfortunate woman, and Mary goes to the innkeeper. But Menners, taking advantage of her position, invites her to enter into an intimate relationship with him. But the decent woman refuses. She has to go to the city to sell her precious ring. On the way, having caught a cold, she catches a cold and catches pneumonia. Without medicine, in need, Longren's wife dies, leaving him to raise a little daughter.

Since then, he began to think every day about how to take revenge on the innkeeper. And then, once, a storm took the boat along with Menners to the open sea. The embittered sailor did not help him, despite requests for help. Six days later, the boat with the dying innkeeper is pulled ashore and the inhabitants learn about Longren's indifference. Then the fellow villagers stopped communicating with Assol and her father.

On one of the beautiful days, the girl launched toy boats along the stream, and saw a storyteller who predicted her future meeting with a beautiful young man who sailed on a yacht with scarlet sails. Having overheard the conversation, the tramp told the townspeople of Kapern about it. And the girl began to be considered simply crazy, naively believing in fairy tales.

Chapter 2

Following further events, we get to know another hero of the story - Gray. Clever, not for the weather, the boy, who grew up in a wealthy family, wanted to become a captain since childhood. A merry fellow by nature and just a very kind child was brought up without much participation of his parents. After all, his mother and father, being aristocrats, devoted their entire lives to collecting portraits of their ancestors. They raised their son the same way. Arthur learned life from the conversations of servants and literature. At the age of twelve, he was shocked by the picture, which depicted a ship proudly rising on the crest of the sea waves. And the boy realized that he would devote his future life to the sea. Passion for distant countries fascinated him so much that at the age of 15 he ran away from home. The persistent young man had to endure many trials before he became a captain. At that time, his father was no longer alive, his mother, who was very old, who did not at all expect that Gray would go on long voyages, was proud of him.

Chapter 3

Then we find ourselves off the coast of Caperna, where the ship stopped to unload the goods. An agonizing wait forces the young man to go fishing with one of the sailors. In the early morning, Gray discovers a sleeping girl who stunned him with her beauty. Some incomprehensible feeling took possession of the young captain, and he decides to leave her a beautiful ring.

The desire to find out about her does not leave the young man, and he, together with Letik, goes to Kapern, where he finds the tavern of the deceased Menners. According to the description, his son begins to tell Gray all sorts of stories about the girl. He also poured a lot of dirt on the late Longren. And perhaps he would have believed this gossip, if not the pure and bright look of the girl, which so touched Gray's heart. And then Arthur decided to find out the whole truth about this beauty.

Chapter 4

The narrative of the next chapter introduces the events that happened to Assol before meeting her future lover. It says that toy boats are no longer sold, as other interesting things have appeared, and Longren has to go on a long voyage again. But he was afraid to leave his daughter alone, because with her beauty she could captivate anyone. Any dress looked like a princess on her. The girl's father forbade her to work, but she, trying to help, was engaged in sewing. Walking through the forest, admiring nature, she unexpectedly lay down on the grass and fell asleep. Having discovered a little later a ring on her hand, Assol did not say anything about the unusual find.

Chapter 5

Wishing to fulfill the girl's beautiful dream, the young captain goes to the city and buys two thousand meters of red silk. He returns to his ship and decides to sew scarlet sails from the purchased fabric. On the way, he meets a wandering musician and invites him to go to his ship with his orchestra.

Chapter 6

The girl, returning home from a walk, meets an old coal miner and his two comrades along the way. Radiant and inspired, she tells everyone that she will soon set off on a long journey. But, considering Assol a little strange, they simply did not pay attention to her phrase.

Chapter 7

And in the final lines of the story, we see how the ship, led by Captain Arthur Gray, rushes to Kapern on all its red sails. The young man eagerly wants to see the girl as soon as possible and open his feelings to her. When the ship approached the shore, Assol was carried away by reading. All the inhabitants, seeing such beauty, were amazed. Assol, running along with everyone, was looking forward to the approach of the yacht.

A handsome young man, sailing up on a boat, asked her if the girl remembered Gray. And having received an affirmative answer, the young man's heart burned with even greater love for this beauty. Music played around. In honor of such an event, the sailors drank wine. And only the old sailor played his instrument and indulged in thoughts about happiness.

Frame from the film "Scarlet Sails" (1961)

Longren, a closed and unsociable person, lived by making and selling models of sailboats and steamships. The fellow countrymen did not really like the former sailor, especially after one incident.

Once, during a severe storm, the shopkeeper and innkeeper Menners was carried away in his boat far out to sea. Longren was the only witness to what was happening. He calmly smoked his pipe, watching Manners call out to him in vain. Only when it became obvious that he could no longer be saved, Longren shouted to him that in the same way his Mary asked a fellow villager for help, but did not receive it.

On the sixth day, the shopkeeper was picked up among the waves by a steamer, and before his death, he told about the culprit of his death.

He did not tell only about how, five years ago, Longren's wife turned to him with a request to lend a little. She had just given birth to little Assol, the birth was not easy, and almost all of her money was spent on treatment, and her husband had not yet returned from swimming. Menners advised not to be touchy, then he is ready to help. The unfortunate woman went to the city in bad weather to lay a ring, caught a cold and died of pneumonia. So Longren remained a widower with his daughter in his arms and could no longer go to sea.

Whatever it was, the news of such demonstrative inactivity of Longren struck the villagers more than if he had drowned a man with his own hands. The hostility turned almost into hatred and also turned to the innocent Assol, who grew up alone with her fantasies and dreams and seemed to need neither peers nor friends. Her father replaced her mother, and friends, and fellow countrymen.

Once, when Assol was eight years old, he sent her to the city with new toys, among which was a miniature yacht with scarlet silk sails. The girl lowered the boat into the stream. The stream carried him and carried him to the mouth, where she saw a stranger holding her boat in his hands. It was old Egle, the collector of legends and fairy tales. He gave the toy to Assol and told that years would pass and the prince would sail for her on the same ship under scarlet sails and take her to a distant country.

The girl told her father about it. Unfortunately, a beggar, who accidentally heard her story, spread the rumor about the ship and the overseas prince throughout Kapern. Now the children shouted after her: “Hey, gallows! Red sails are sailing! So she came across as crazy.

Arthur Gray, the only offspring of a noble and wealthy family, did not grow up in a hut, but in a family castle, in an atmosphere of predestination of every present and future step. This, however, was a boy with a very lively soul, ready to fulfill his own destiny in life. He was determined and fearless.

The keeper of their wine cellar, Poldishok, told him that two barrels of Cromwellian alicante were buried in one place and its color was darker than cherry, and it was thick like good cream. The casks are made of ebony and have double copper hoops that say, "I'll be drunk by Gray when he's in heaven." No one has tasted this wine and never will. “I'll drink it,” Gray said, stamping his foot and clenching his hand into a fist: “Paradise? He is here!.."

For all that, he was extremely responsive to someone else's misfortune, and his sympathy always resulted in real help.

In the library of the castle, he was struck by a painting by some famous marine painter. She helped him understand himself. Gray secretly left home and joined the schooner Anselm. Captain Hop was a kind man, but a stern sailor. Having appreciated the mind, perseverance and love for the sea of ​​a young sailor, Gop decided to “make a captain out of a puppy”: to introduce him to navigation, maritime law, sailing and accounting. At the age of twenty, Gray bought a three-masted galliot "Secret" and sailed on it for four years. Fate brought him to Liss, an hour and a half walk from which was Caperna.

With the onset of darkness, together with the sailor Letika Gray, taking fishing rods, he sailed on a boat in search of a suitable place for fishing. Under the cliff behind Kaperna, they left the boat and lit a fire. Letika went fishing, and Gray lay down by the fire. In the morning he went for a walk, when suddenly he saw Assol sleeping in the thickets. He looked at the girl who struck him for a long time, and leaving, he took off the old ring from his finger and put it on her little finger.

Then he and Letika went to Menners' tavern, where the young Hin Menners was now in charge. He said that Assol is crazy, dreaming of a prince and a ship with scarlet sails, that her father is the culprit in the death of the elder Menners and a terrible person. Doubts about the veracity of this information intensified when a drunken collier assured that the innkeeper was lying. Gray and without outside help managed to understand something in this extraordinary girl. She knew life within the limits of her experience, but, moreover, she saw in phenomena a meaning of a different order, making many subtle discoveries that were incomprehensible and unnecessary to the inhabitants of Caperna.

The captain was in many ways the same himself, a little out of this world. He went to Liss and found scarlet silk in one of the shops. In the city, he met an old acquaintance - a wandering musician Zimmer - and asked him to arrive at the "Secret" with his orchestra in the evening.

The scarlet sails bewildered the crew, as did the order to advance towards Kaperna. Nevertheless, in the morning the "Secret" set out under scarlet sails, and by noon was already in sight of Caperna.

Assol was shocked by the spectacle of a white ship with scarlet sails, from the deck of which music was pouring. She rushed to the sea, where the inhabitants of Caperna had already gathered. When Assol appeared, everyone fell silent and parted. The boat, in which Gray was standing, separated from the ship and headed towards the shore. After a while, Assol was already in the cabin. Everything happened just as the old man had predicted.

On the same day, a barrel of hundred-year-old wine was opened, which no one had ever drunk before, and the next morning the ship was already far from Caperna, carrying away the crew, defeated by Gray's unusual wine. Only Zimmer did not sleep. He quietly played his cello and thought about happiness.

retold

The famous work of Alexander Grin "Scarlet Sails" has made good romantics for several generations of readers. Since 1922, the beautiful fairy tale has brought tears of admiration to girls in many countries of the world, as it has been translated into most European languages.

The history of the creation of the work

To understand the essence of the extravaganza, you can study its summary (“Scarlet Sails”) chapter by chapter. This book has 7 chapters in total. The first is the plot of the whole story and acquaintance with the main character.

"Prediction"

A big plus for the development of the child, if his list of authors for mandatory reading includes Green ("Scarlet Sails"). A summary of the chapters begins with the chapter "Prediction", which immediately intrigues the young reader.

The sailor Longren, returning from the voyage, learns that his wife died because of the greed and deceit of Menners, the owner of the tavern and the shopkeeper. After her death, their little Assol remains in the care of Longren, who began to make children's toys in order to feed himself and his daughter.

Assol was a sweet and kind girl when an event happened that forever made her and her father outcasts in the village where they lived. During a strong wind, Menners' boat got untied, and he decided to return it to the shore. The rising wind drove the boat out to sea. Menners shouted to Longren to throw a rope and help him, but he silently smoked his pipe and watched how the boat was carried farther and farther away.

After 6 days, the dying Menners was found, he told what Longren had done. The inhabitants of Caperna were amazed that the former sailor watched in silence as the boat was carried away to the sea. Since then, they began to shun her and her daughter, and the children stopped taking Assol into their games.

The grown-up girl began to independently carry toys made by her father to the neighboring town of Liss. During one of these "campaigns" in the city, Assol saw in a basket a new yacht with scarlet sails. She liked the toy so much that she decided to let it swim in a small stream that flowed along her path.

The yacht “ran away” from her, Assol found her at the feet of a collector of fairy tales, who predicted to the girl that someday a prince would sail for her on a yacht with scarlet sails. After the girl returned the story of this meeting to her father, her story was heard by a beggar resting nearby. He conveyed the conversation between the father and the girl to the people in the tavern, and since then the nickname “ship Assol” has appeared.

"Gray"

Gray was born into a wealthy aristocratic family, but knew from early childhood that he wanted to become a captain. He was an unusual boy, because he felt the pain of other people, he was curious, smart and cheerful, which did not correspond to the canons of a strict aristocratic upbringing.

Having parents, Gray was completely alone, as they devoted little time to their child. He spent a lot of time in the family library, studied the family castle, talked with servants and maids, skipped homework with teachers, and at the age of 15 he ran away from home to become a captain.

To do this, he was hired as a cabin boy on the ship "Anselm". The book, namely its summary (“Scarlet Sails”, Green A.), cannot fully convey the willpower that it took the boy who grew up in luxury to achieve his goal.

He turned out to be a strong and courageous young man who, at the age of 20, bought a ship and became a captain on it.

"Dawn" and "The Day Before"

The story continues with the next two chapters of the extravaganza, the author of which is Green A.S. (“Scarlet Sails”). The chapter summary takes readers further into the Breaking Dawn chapter. Gray found himself on his ship, the Secret, at Lissa, anchoring near Caperna. For 10 days, goods were unloaded on the Secret, and on the 11th day, Gray got bored and decided to go fishing with the sailor Letika.

To unwind, the captain of the "Secret" decided to take a walk at dawn and found Assol sleeping in a clearing. Summary (“Scarlet Sails”) chapter by chapter it is difficult to convey the full impression of Gray at the moment when he saw the sleeping girl.

Assol's appearance struck him so much that he perceived what was happening as a beautiful picture of an unknown author. Deciding to become part of this picture, driven by some incomprehensible feeling, he left an old family ring on Assol's little finger. After that, he, together with Letika, went to Kaperna to find out who this girl was.

They found an inn run by the son of the late Menners. When Gray described the girl to him, he said that she was a crazy "ship Assol". He told a lot of dirty gossip about her and her father, but the captain saw a girl walking along the road in the window of the tavern, and her eyes told him more than all the stories of Menners Jr. After that, Gray did not leave the feeling that he had made an incredible discovery in his life.

Longren's toys were no longer in demand, and he decided to re-employ to serve as a sailor. In this part of the work, the author talks about what the adult Assol has become. Having studied only the summary (“Scarlet Sails”) chapter by chapter, it is difficult not to be imbued with the author’s obvious sympathy for his heroine. If you put it in one word, then it is "charm".

To help her father, Assol took up sewing. Tired of work, she lay down, but waking up in the predawn twilight, she decided to take a walk to her favorite place, where she had friends - trees, hedgehogs, flowers and the whole world around her. At dawn she again lay down to sleep right on the grass, where Gray found her.

"Combat preparations" and "Assol remains alone"

In the fifth chapter, Captain Gray is preparing to perform a miracle, it gives him great pleasure. He buys 2,000 meters of scarlet silk and orders sails to be sewn from them. In Liss, he met a group of musicians he knew and invited them aboard the Secret. When all the preparations were completed, and the scarlet sails were stretched, the ship headed for Kaperna.

In the sixth chapter, Longren says goodbye to Assol and goes on a flight, and the girl is absorbed in a premonition of a miracle, as she saw Gray and took him as a sign. Reading (Green, "Scarlet Sails") a summary of the chapters, it is difficult to understand Assol's state of mind. She feels that the long-awaited day will come soon, her prince will sail for her.

"Scarlet "Secret""

In the last chapter, Gray performs a miracle - Assol's childhood dream comes true, sailing after her on a ship with scarlet sails. Living in anticipation of a miracle and doing miracles with your own hands is the main theme of this wonderful extravaganza.

A.S. Green

Name: Scarlet Sails

Genre: Tale

Duration:

Part 1: 10min 55sec

Part 2: 10min 26sec

Annotation:

The story takes place in a small fishing village. Former sailor Longren, after the death of his beloved wife, brings up one daughter, Assol. And he earns a meager living by selling boats, which he himself carves out of wood. While still a child, Assol met a man who called himself a wizard. He promised her that one day a prince would come for her on a ship with scarlet sails and take her away with him. The villagers laughed at these nonsense, but Assol believed that one day her dream would come true. At the same time, the son of a nobleman, Arthur Gray, escapes from his cruel father and enters the schooner, where he eventually becomes a captain. Having moored to the port near the village of Assol, he notices a girl sleeping in the thickets of the forest and falls in love with her. After questioning local residents, he learns about Assol's dream and makes it a reality.

A.S. Green - Scarlet Sails Part 1. Listen to the summary online.

A brief retelling of the "Scarlet Sails" extravaganza by Alexander Grin chapter by chapter. "Scarlet Sails" is a fairy tale that affirms the strength of the human spirit, the belief that a person is capable of performing miracles.

"Scarlet Sails" is a symbol of love and hope, a symbol of faith in a dream, the embodiment of the most unrealizable dreams.
When the soul harbors a seed of a fiery plant - a miracle, make it a miracle for it, if you are able. Alexander Green.

Chapter I Prediction. Longren served as a sailor on the Orion brig for 10 years. He had to leave the service as his wife Mary died.

It happened like this. When Longren was at sea, his wife Mary gave birth to a daughter, Assol, the birth was difficult, all the money was spent on treatment and caring for the newborn. Mary had to borrow money from the local innkeeper Menners, who promised her money in exchange for love. Then she went to town to pawn her wedding ring. The weather that evening was rainy, she caught pneumonia and died. Assol was left in the care of a neighbor.

Returning Longren took the calculation, and began to raise little Assol. But I had to somehow feed myself and my daughter. Then the former sailor began to make toy boats, sailboats for sale. He was a very reserved person, and after the death of his wife he became even more withdrawn into himself. Assol devoted all his time.
One day a storm arose in the sea. His sworn enemy Menners, could not cope with his boat, and was carried away to sea. Longren saw all this, but did nothing to save him. So Longren avenged his wife. Nevertheless, Menners was saved, but a couple of days later he died from a cold and horror. Before his death, Meneres told fellow villagers how Longren followed his death, refusing to help. He kept silent about the fact that at one time he himself did not help his wife. All fellow villagers further fenced themselves off from Longren. This alienation affected Assol. The girl grew up without friends. When she grew up, her father began to take her with him to the city to deliver toys to shops. Sometimes she went alone.

Once, on the way to the store, Assol played with a toy yacht with scarlet sails. She let it swim in the stream, but the toy was carried away by the current very far. The girl ran after her for a long time. Along the way, she ran into the old man Aigle, a collector of legends and fairy tales. He gave her the toy and said: "Time will pass, and a ship with scarlet sails and a prince on board will sail for you, which will take you to his kingdom."
Assol, excited, ran home and told her father everything. Longren was glad that his daughter was alive and well, but he thought about the fairy tale with time. This story was heard by a beggar who was passing by their house. He asked Longren for a cigarette, but he said that his daughter was sleeping and he did not want to wake her up, refused him. Offended, the tramp went to the tavern and there told everyone about the prince. And since then, all the children began to tease Assol that the red sails were already sailing towards her.

Chapter II Gray
Arthur Gray grew up in a rich and noble family, in a real castle. He was a very impressionable, kind child. Once in the cellar of the castle, Gray saw barrels of wine. There was a Latin inscription on the hoops: "Gray will drink me when he is in paradise." Nobody knew exactly what that meant. The guardian Poldishok said that no one drank or tried this wine, and Gray answered: “I will drink it!”

At the age of 12, he saw a huge picture, which depicted a ship on the crest of a sea rampart. This picture helped him understand himself, he wanted to become the captain of the ship, at the age of fifteen he ran away from home. He became a cabin boy on the schooner "Anselm" under the command of Captain Gop. This captain taught Gray the tricks of the sea, at the age of 20, Gray buys his three-masted galliot "Secret". At that time, he no longer had a father, and his mother did not take his passion for the sea seriously, but still she was very proud of her son.

Chapter III Dawn.
Gray sails on his ship to the city of Lissa, not far from which Caperna was located. Having unloaded the goods, the crew of the ship rests on the shore. In the evening, the captain wanted to go fishing and, having called the sailor Letik with him, they sailed in the boat. The wave washed them towards Caperna. They stopped behind a cliff, Dandelion began to fish, and Gray went for a walk along the shore. And in the thick grass he sees a sleeping girl. She amazes and fascinates him with her beauty. Gray could not restrain himself, put his old ancestral ring on her little finger. Trying not to make noise, he quietly leaves, and then decides to ask the locals about this beauty. In the tavern, he learns from the son of the late Mineres that the girl's name is Assol, and that she is "crazy", since she has been waiting for the prince on a ship with scarlet sails since childhood. The drunken collier who heard the whole conversation said that the words of the innkeeper could not be trusted. The girl is absolutely healthy.
Chapter IV The day before.
On the eve of that day and seven years after Aigle's prediction. More than once, Asol went to the seashore at night, where, after waiting for the dawn, she seriously looked out for a ship with Scarlet Sails. These moments were happiness for her; it is difficult for us to go into a fairy tale like that, it would be no less difficult for her to get out of her power and charm.
Assol continued to bring her toys to the city for sale, but they began to be poorly bought, as there were many overseas curiosities.
On that day "when Gray saw her" for some reason she could not sleep. Assol, obeying some inner call, went to the seashore to meet the dawn. She sat down in a meadow among flowers and trees, carefully looking at the horizon, imagining what she sees a ship, soon Assol fell asleep. When she woke up, a ring gleamed on her hand. She couldn't figure out where it came from. So Gray and Assol met for the first time.

Chapter V Combat preparations.
Gray returned to the ship and weighed anchor. He went to the shopping districts of Lis and bought 2,000 meters of scarlet silk. He hired musicians and told them to come to the ship. Returning to the ship, he listened to Letik, who brought a report on the Assol family. Gray realized that he was making the right choice.

Chapter VII Asol remains alone. Longren spent the night at sea, he thought about the future, about Assol, about what they should live on. When he returned home, Assol was not there, she came a little later. Her face beamed with a smile, her gaze was enigmatic.
Longren told her that he would get a job on a mail steamer. She was a little upset, but continued to smile, anticipating something good. Assol helped her father get ready and he left. She couldn't sit at home, she went out for a walk. On the way, Assol met a coal miner who was working with two friends. The girl told him that she would probably leave here soon, but she didn't know where yet. The coal miner was very surprised.

From the mouth of the river in the early morning comes "Secret" with scarlet sails on it. Gray stood at the helm, not trusting the sailor to helm - he was afraid of the shallows. His assistant Panten sat beside him, clean-shaven and pouting meekly. He still didn't understand the connection between the scarlet garb and Gray's direct target. Gray explains to his assistant that he will soon see a girl who cannot and should not get married otherwise: “I come to the one who is waiting and can wait only for me, I don’t want anyone else but her, thanks to her I understood one truth . It's about doing so-called miracles with your own hands. « Their ship is met by a war cruiser and ordered to stop. The captain of the cruiser cannot figure out why they need scarlet sails. But having learned for what purpose they are sailing, they are allowed to continue their journey, the cruiser even gives a salute in their honor. When Gray's ship approached Coperni, Assol was reading a book and looking out the window at the sea. Noticing a ship under scarlet sails, Assol runs out of the house. The locals were already on the beach. When Assol appeared, the people parted in front of her, the decorated boat descended from the ship to the sound of beautiful music. Assol runs to the boat waist-deep in water. Gray, who was in the boat, asked if Assol recognized him. She replied that this is how she imagined him since childhood. Climbing the "Secret" Assol asked to take her father with her. Gray replied that of course they would be together and kissed her hard. The same century-old wine was discovered on the ship. In the morning the ship was far from Caperna. Everyone was asleep. Only Zimmer, Gray's friend, did not sleep. He quietly played the cello and thought about happiness ...

In this section, a brief retelling, "Scarlet Sails" extravaganza by Alexander Grin chapter by chapter. You have read only a summary, for a deeper understanding, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the full version of the work.