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Thinking that perhaps fruit-time is better than blossom-time, he foresaw a deeper love awaiting him, and a tenderness that he could not feel to-day might be his in years to come. Nor could habit blunt his perceptions or intimacy unravel the mystery of her sunny nature. So the bourne could never be reached; for when everything had been said, something would remain unspoken.
The daughters would serve mate to us, a beverage which as a small boy I did not like, but there was no chocolate or tea in that house for visitors, and in fruit-time I was always glad to get away to the orchard. As at our own home the old peach trees grew in the middle part of the plantation, the other parts being planted with rows of Lombardy poplars and other large shade trees.
So we lay on deck, smoked cigarettes, and were glad that we were alive. I spat over the side and gauged the speed of the current. "With this wind, we could run this flood clear to Rio Vista," I said. "And it's fruit-time on the river," said Nickey. "And low water on the river," said I. "It's the best time of the year to make Sacramento." We sat up and looked at each other.
When Plato confounded them all in a splendid confusion of criticism the fruit-time had gone by. There was left but to expatiate on the hoard which summer had bequeathed, or to speculate, if he chose, on the possible yield of a future and most problematical year. In the rich Italian summer one sees the same thing.
Features which had been coldly perfect and hard in early youth, and which might grow sharp in old age, were smoothed and rounded in the full fruit-time of life's summer. As the gold deepened in the mellow air, and tinged the lady's hair and eyes, it wrought in her face changes of which she knew nothing.
'Take care that you sigh not yet for your old home and humble friends. 'Indeed I shall not! she retorted insolently. 'Wait, wait! continued sturdy Bramble; ''tis the time of flowers now wait till the fruit-time comes. 'I do not know what you mean, she retorted angrily; 'nor do I' 'That there is a time for all things, explained Shepherd's Clock, interrupting her.
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