Nobody's Girl

eight days Perrine ran through the streets of the vill

admiringly, as Perrine's clear treble was heard in the streets. "If yer'd stay with me y

t it's not possibl

e not sufficient to induce Perrine to sta

n't have to le

ief, but Perrine ha

relations; I real

r life, like that there don

omised my

day you'll be sorry yer didn't

d and I shall alw

lift in his cart as far as Amiens. He was quite willing, and for one whole day Perrine enjoyed the comfo

nding her five francs to the ticket seller she asked for a ticket to Picquigny. This time she had the satisf

she ... how unlike she was from that miserable little girl who had fallen by the wayside. And she was clean, too. During the days she had spent with La Rouquerie she had been able to mend her waist and her skirt,

poplars and limes, past the river where the villagers in their Sunday clothes were fishing, past the windmills which, despi

uaint church, and over the railway tracks which unites the towns wherein Vul

Listening to them as they talked in groups she heard again the sing-song

girl walking slowly ahead of her car

y to Maraucourt

oad ... quit

rine laughing, "it isn't s

I'm going there too, and we could

elp you carry your basket,

to that, for i

t on the ground and br

o Maraucourt, do yo

do

e I

rk in the

so, everybod

ch do t

n s

it har

a sharp eye and not waste time

they'd

think they'd get the seven thousand hands they've got. Just be there tomorrow

d Perrine took it on the other side and they set

ood for her not to seize it. But she was afraid to question this girl openly. She mus

n at Maraucou

my mother was too, my fa

ou lost

who keeps a grocer store and re

dame Fr

o you kn

id, 'Ah, Madam

ur Edmond Paindavoine. Whenever the men want to ask the boss, Monsieur Vu

ways get wha

es no; Monsieur Vulfran

nurse to Monsieur Edmond

's seen him since. He had a quarrel with his father, and his father sent him to Indi

Vulfran was so she said abrupt

e. What is

. What's

o give her real name,

ie," s

e, then went on again

quarrel with his father," sa

ecause he wanted his son to marry this other girl that he built the beautiful mansion he's got. It cost millions and millions of francs. But M. Edmond wouldn't part with the wife he's got over there to take up with the young lady h

has ne

Bretoneux, his sister's son, who help him in the business. If M. Edmond doe

rea

and so many people have to get their living from it. Sure, it'll be a sad day when they get it, and they

his n

lso. But it's none of our busines

why

sitive, she walked on silently, but Rosalie

ith your parents to M

e no p

her, no

N

cles and aunts; she has to please them. If it wasn't for them I should not have to work in the factories; I s

all

a to leave Paris and

er on to some relations, I stopped here. If you don't know your relations,

nd ones, there are some might

Perrine said, noddi

h, but it's something, and you can get as much as twenty-two sous. I'm going to

lit

grandmother's, that'll cost you twen

twenty-ei

t price; there'll be six in the same room, but you'll have a

and thank y

Monsieur Fabry, the engineer of the building; Monsieur Mombleux, the head clerk, and Mr. Bendit, who has charge of the foreign correspondence. If you ever speak to him always c

t; besides, I

w Englis

er was E

stunt on Sunday is to read prayers that are printed in twenty-five languages. When he's gone through them once