[The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright]@TWC D-Link bookThe Eyes of the World CHAPTER XXII 4/11
They will all be back in Fairlands in another month.
They sent regards to you both--in case I should run across you."' The two men made the usual conventional replies, adding that they were returning to Fairlands the next day. "So soon ?" exclaimed their visitor, with another meaning smile.
"I don't see how you can think of leaving your really delightful retreat.
I understand you have such charming neighbors too.
Perhaps though, they are also returning to the orange groves and roses." Aaron King's face flushed hotly, and he was about to reply with vigor to the sneering words, when Conrad Lagrange silenced him with a quick look. Ignoring the reference to their neighbors, the novelist replied suavely that they felt they must return to civilization as some matters in connection with the new edition of his last novel demanded his attention, and the artist wished to get back to his studio and to his work. "Really," urged Rutlidge, mockingly, "you ought not to go down now.
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