A Scarlet Pansy by Robert Scully Robert J. Corber

Author:Robert Scully, Robert J. Corber [Robert Scully, Robert J. Corber]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780823272594
Google: PolpAQAACAAJ
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2016-01-15T05:47:47+00:00

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FAY WAS LUCKY. A turn in the market made her independent. She resigned her position and matriculated at one of the universities to finish the pre-medical course which she had previously outlined. It left her much free time, and it is to be feared that some of it she did not use as judiciously as she should have done.

More money of course made her more popular. It always does! She met many handsome young men at college, who, as she said, “needed to be brought out,” or “needed to make their bow to society.” She treated them well—Saturday luncheons at the prominent hotels; theatre parties; dances afterwards, wherever the most enjoyable music could be had. She was somewhat older than these boys, but looked young. She had the advantage of experience for which they admired her quite as much as her physical attributes.

Now, college boys are always much sought after by the society buds. One of Fay’s chief amusements of a Saturday afternoon and evening was to pit her wiles against the social position of the young set that always crowds about such places as are on the lists approved by the “Matrons.” The boys would desert any of the buds at any time to do Fay’s bidding, that is, so long as she was interested in them.

Many a society marriage quickly followed a jilting by Fay, the “sweet young things,” catching the youths on the rebound, as it were. It is often that way—far more often than women generally imagine.

In college Fay was as successful socially as she had been with the Broadway set, though it required a change of method.

“Do something for Alma Mater,” was the slogan. She responded nobly and did everything in sight, and if it was not in sight she ferreted it out.

One of the biologists, commenting on her, said, “She certainly lives up to her name. She’s quite the queerest thing I’ve ever had in my classes. Learn? She absorbs subjects; but she never asks me a question that is not connected with reproduction. I half believe she does it to embarrass me. She has some theory of her own about glands, too. Her own interpretation of sexual variation from the normal is that it is conditioned by functional disturbances of various endocrine glands. At that, she may be right.”

What Fay learned about him was even more amusing than what he suspected about her.

He was still a half-way Presbyterian, despite his education, and still had many of the inhibitions of that good Christian sect. He liked to draw, and would hire a model, ostensibly to pose for him; he would sit in one corner of the room, watch her take the pose, sigh spasmodically, then say, “That’s all, you can robe yourself.” And these women he did not secure through the usual agencies; instead he would sally out on Broadway late at night and pick them up. Yet he was wont to boast that he had never been immoral.

The French professor told Fay what

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