# The girls

Author: Ferber, Edna, 1885-1968

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75334

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+girls+Ferber&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It is a question of method. Whether to rush you up to the girls pellmell, leaving you to become acquainted as best you can; or, with elaborate slyness, to slip you so casually into their family life that they will not even glance up when you enter the room, or leave it; or to present the three of them in solemn order according to age, epoch, and story. This last would mean beginning with great-aunt Charlotte Thrift, spinster, aged seventy-four; thence to her niece and namesake Lottie Payson, spinster, aged thirty-two; finishing with Lottie's niece and namesake Charley Kemp, spinster, aged eighteen and a half--you may be certain nobody ever dreamed of calling _her_ Charlotte. If you are le...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/14/index.md)
- [did. Instinctively her mother sensed this (perhaps, after all, she had](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/19/index.md)
- [did. If you think three months of camp training----](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girls-75334/chapters/15/index.md)