Vesty of the Basins: A Novel (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Greene, Sarah Pratt McLean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330225562 ISBN 13: 9781330225561

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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There are many panes of glass out of the win dows, the panels of the doors are out; so better they can see the clouds pass: it is beautiful.

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Now is it to be rain or a storm of wind at the Basin ?

I love that foam out on the sea; those boulders, black and wet along the shore, they are a rest to me; the clouds chase one another; in this dim north country the wind is cool and strong, though it is now midsummer; at sunset you shall see such color!

From a little, low, storm-beaten building comes the sound of a fog-horn. That is the gift of Mel-chias Tibbitts, deceased, to the Basin school-house. Yonder is his schooner, the "Martha B. Fuller/* long stranded, leaning seaward, down there in the cove.

It is Sunday afternoon; the fog-horn that Melchias Tibbitts gave-it serves as bell; the battered school-house as church; and for Sunday raiment? some little reverent, aspiring compromise of an unwonted white collar, stretched stiff and holy and uncomfortable about the stalwart neck above a blue flannel shirt, or a new pair of rubber boots-the trousers

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330225562
• ISBN 13: 9781330225561
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284