The Other Girls

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THE OTHER GIRLS
By
MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND
COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1893

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by JAMES R.
OSGOOD AND COMPANY, in the Office of the Librarian of
Congress, at Washington.
* * * * *
By Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
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PREFACE.
"Wait until you are helped, my dear! Don't touch the pie until it is cut!"
The old Mother, Life, keeps saying that to us all.

As individuals, it is well for us to remember it; that we may not have
things until we are helped; at any rate, until the full and proper time
comes, for courageously and with right assurance helping ourselves.
Yet it is good for people, as people, to get a morsel--a flavor--in
advance. It is well that they should be impatient for the King's supper,
to which we shall all sit down, if we will, one day.
So I have not waited for everything to happen and become a usage, that
I have told you of in this little story. I confess that there are good things
in it which have not yet, literally, come to pass. I have picked
something out of the pie beforehand.
I meant, therefore, to have laid all dates aside; especially as I found
myself a little cramped by them, in re-introducing among these "Other
Girls" the girls whom we have before, and rather lately, known. Lest,
possibly, in anything which they have here grown to, or experienced, or
accomplished, the sharply exact reader should seem to detect the
requirement of a longer interval than the almanacs could actually give,
I meant to have asked that it should be remembered, that we
story-tellers write chiefly in the Potential Mood, and that tenses do not
very essentially signify. It will all have had opportunity to be true in
eighteen-seventy-five, if it have not had in eighteen-seventy-three. Well
enough, indeed, if the prophecies be justified as speedily as the
prochronisms will.
The Great Fire, you see, came in and dated it. I could not help that;
neither could I leave the great fact out.
Not any more could I possibly tell what sort of April days we should
have, when I found myself fixed to the very coming April and Easter,
for the closing chapters of my tale. If persistent snow-storms fling a
falsehood in my face, it will be what I have not heretofore believed
possible,--a white one; and we can all think of balmy Aprils that have
been, and that are yet to be.
With these appeals for trifling allowance,--leaving the larger need to
the obvious accounting for in a largeness of subject which no slight

fiction can adequately handle,--I give you leave to turn the page.
A. D. T. W. BOSTON, March, 1873.

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
SPILLED OUT II. UP-STAIRS III. TWO TRIPS IN THE TRAIN IV.
NINETY-NINE FAHRENHEIT V. SPILLED OUT AGAIN VI. A
LONG CHAPTER OF A WHOLE YEAR VII. BEL AND
BARTHOLOMEW VIII. TO HELP: SOMEWHERE IX.
INHERITANCE X. FILLMER AND BYLLES XI. CHRISTOFERO
XII. LETTERS AND LINKS XIII. RACHEL FROKE'S TROUBLE
XIV. MAVIS