[The Firing Line by Robert W. Chambers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Firing Line CHAPTER VI 8/33
Shall we eat oranges together and become friendly and messy? Are you even _that_ kind of a man? Oh, then if you really are, there's a mixed grove just beyond." So together, shoulder to shoulder, keeping step, they passed through the new grove with its enormous pendent bunches of grape-fruit, and into a second grove where limes and mandarins hung among clusters of lemons and oranges; where kum-quat bushes stood stiffly, studded with egg-shaped, orange-tinted fruit; where tangerines, grape-fruit, and king-oranges grew upon the same tree, and the deep scarlet of ripe Japanese persimmons and the huge tattered fronds of banana trees formed a riotous background. "This tree!" she indicated briefly, reaching up; and her hand was white even among the milky orange bloom--he noticed that as he bent down a laden bough for her. "Pine-oranges," she said, "the most delicious of all.
I'll pick and you hold the branch.
And please get me a few tangerines--those blood-tangerines up there....
Thank you; and two Japanese persimmons--and two more for yourself....
Have you a knife? Very well; now, break a fan from that saw-palmetto and sweep a place for me on the ground--that way.
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