But then she was used to creating a stir among men. Her
beauty perturbed almost the entire male student body.
* * * * *
I noticed that her particular chum was a very homely girl. I straightway
found charms in this girl that no one had ever found before. And Alice
and I became friends. And, while posing, I came before the time, because
she, I discovered, was always beforehand, touching up her work.
Alice was a stupid, clumsy girl, but she adored Vanna and liked nothing
better than to talk about her chum and room-mate. She took care of Vanna
as one would take care of a helpless baby.
"Vanna is a genius, if there ever was one ... she doesn't know her hands
from her feet in practical affairs ... but she's wonderful ... all the
boys," and Alice sighed with as much envy as her nature would
allow--"all the boys are just crazy about her ... but she isn't in love
with any of them!"
My heart gave a great bound of hope at these last words.
"Professor Grant's students--about two-thirds of them--have enrolled in
his classes, because she's there."
And then I went cold with jealousy and with despair ... one so popular
could never _see_ me ... if it were only later, when my fame as a poet
had come!
* * * * *
"Vanna has to be waited on hand and foot. I don't mind though,"
continued Alice, "I hang up her clothes for her .
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