The Great God Success by David Graham Phillips
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Miss Trevor?" Segur began as the whiskey and carbonic were set before them.
"A very attractive girl," said Howard. "Yes--so a good many men have thought in the last five years. She's marrying Teddy Danvers in the spring, I believe. At any rate it's generally looked on as settled. Teddy's a good deal of a 'chump.' But he's a decent fellow--good-looking, good-natured, domestic in his tastes, and nothing but money." Howard was smiling to himself. He understood Miss Trevor's sudden consciousness of the nearness of the fire, her flush when Mrs. Sidney asked about "Teddy," and the recklessness in her parting laugh. "Well, Teddy's in luck," he said aloud. "Not so sure of that. She's quite capable of leading him a dance if he bores her. And bore her he will. But that is nothing new. This town is full of it." "Full of what?" "Of weary women--weary wives. The men are hobby-riders. They have just one interest and that usually small and dull--stocks or iron or real estate or hunting or automobiles. Our women are not like the English women--stupid, sodden. They are alive, acute. They wish to be interested. Their husbands bore them. So--well, what is the natural temptation to a lazy woman in search of an interest?" "It's like Paris--like France?" |
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