What Will People Say?

wiftly she fled northward. He could follow her car as it thridded the unpoliced traffic b

like all the rest when no one is there to stop her. She wheedles th

rians leaped like kangaroos to escape her wheels. Once or twice coll

were there on fixed post; but, once beyond, the feather dimini

was she hastening at such dreadful pace, with such rash desire? He felt a

e crashed into some other-into a great steel-girder truck like that that crossed the A

ce might be upturned to any man's view and every man's horror. He was

e rose to leave the bus. It lurched and threw him from bench to bench. He negotiated with difficulty the perilous descent, clutched the hand-rail in time to save hi

long it was dense and viscid, as if theate

heels; chains of womankind like strings of beaded pearls, hordes of women, dressed in infinite variations of the pre

men. The great show-cases, dressed with all expertness, were sile

t-patterns and scarves, bathrobes, waistcoats that rivaled Joseph's; but m

ds!" "How well my diamonds would bedeck her hair or her bosom! If you love her, get me for her!" "It is shameful of you to pretend not to see me, or to confe

spoils of yesterday's pillage, and yet to yearn for to-morrow's. Women gowned lik

to be shop-windows offering their graces for purchase or haughtily labeling themselves "sold." Young or ant

my clothes well?" "I am young and beautiful and superbly garbed, and I have a rich husband." "I am only a little school-girl, but I am ready to be admired, and my father buys me everything I want." "I am le

York, and their standards, underrated their virtues. Vice may go unkempt and shabby, and a saint may take thought of her appearance. Perhaps what he rat

the alleged festivals of Babylon, where all the women piously offered themselves to e

r way. Here the women looked not so much feminine as female. They appeared to be thinking amorous thoughts. They de

med Igorrotes; but these women looked nakeder than those.

man-worshiping soul crept into Forbes

of these women wears some man has paid. Fathers, husbands, guardia

their tasks somewhere, building, producing; or in their graves resting from their labor

return? They must pay som