The readjustment Author:Will Irwin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: at travel and society and the things a girl of her breeding should have. This is all her deliberate choice, and I've done nothing to help her choose. Perhaps I s... more »hould have decided for her. It's curious the guard that girl keeps over her deeper feelings. How unlike she is to her mother—and yet how like—" Her thought shifted suddenly with the direction of her eyes. "Hasn't Olsen overloaded that little team?" she said. The cutting-shed stood midway of their course. Twenty women and girls, their lips going as rapidly as their knives, sat on fruit crates at long tables, slicing the red-and-gold balls apart, flicking out the stones, laying the halves to dry in wooden trays. A wagon had just arrived from the orchard. Olsen, the Swedish foreman, was heaving the boxes to his Portuguese assistant, who passed them on into the cutting shed. Further on stood the bleaching kilns; still further, the bright green trees with no artistic irregularities of outline —trees born, like a coolie, to bear burdens. Now the branches bent in arcs under loads of summer-gilded fruit. Long step-ladders straddling piles of boxes, beside this row or that, showed where pickingwas going forward. Mrs. Tiffany halted under one tree to call pleasantries up to a Portuguese, friend of many a harvest before. Judge Tiffany proceeded on down the row, pausing to inspect the boxes for any fruit gathered before it was ripe. The first picker was a Chinese. His box, of course, showed only perfection of workmanship. The Judge called up familiarly: "Hello, Charlie!" A yellow face grinned through the branches; the leaves rustled as though some great bird were foraging, and the answer came back: "Hello you Judge!" The Judge picked over the next two boxes without comment; at the third, he stopped longer. "Too mu...« less