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Title: Nobody's Girl
(En Famille)

Author: Hector Malot

Illustrator: Thelma Gooch

Translator: Florence Crewe-Jones

Release Date: January 3, 2009 [EBook #27690]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Transcriber's Note: Some spelling variations have been standardised to
agree with the original French version of "En Famille". For example
"Madamoiselle" and "Mademoiselle" have been changed to Mademoiselle
exclusively. Dr Cendrier, rather than Centrier, is correct according to
the original French version, so Centrier has been changed to Cendrier.

In the fourth last paragraph "daughter" has been corrected to
"granddaughter".

Some spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors have been
corrected where detected.

[Illustration: "WHY, IT'S BEAUTIFUL," SAID PERRINE, SOFTLY. (See page 86)]

NOBODY'S
GIRL

(_En Famille_)

BY
HECTOR MALOT

TRANSLATED BY
FLORENCE CREWE-JONES

_Illustrated by_
THELMA GOOCH

NEW YORK MCMXXII
CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

_Copyright, 1922, by_
CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

Printed in United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I PERRINE AND PALIKARE 1

II GRAIN-OF-SALT IS KIND 20

III "POOR LITTLE GIRL" 41

IV A HARD ROAD TO TRAVEL 47

V STORMS AND FEARS 59

VI THE RESCUE 72

VII MARAUCOURT AT LAST 77

VIII GRANDFATHER VULFRAN 86

IX ONE SLEEPLESS NIGHT 95

X THE HUT ON THE ISLAND 110

XI WORK IN THE FACTORY 115

XII NEW SHOES 130

XIII STRANGE HOUSEKEEPING 136