[Gutenberg 21443] • Vesty of the Basins

Sarah Pratt McLean, Mrs Greene (also wrote as: Sarah Platt McLean Greene) (1856-1935), was an American author. Her works include: Cape Cod Folks (1881), Towhead (1883), Last Chance Junction (1889), The Moral Imbeciles (1898), Vesty of the Basins (1900), Winslow Plain (1902), Flood-Tide (1902) and Power Lot (1906). "Aunt Sibylla was not sporting, now, in the airy realms of metaphor. Aunt Sibylla stood upon Cape Cod, and her voice rang out with that peculiar sweep and power which the presence of a dread reality alone can give. Something of the precariousness of her situation, too, was expressed in The wild, alarming, though graceful, gesture of her arms. "