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Updated: June 7, 2025
Gordon! said Kirsty cheerfully, as she wheeled her horse to set him straight at a steep grassy brae. The laird and his mother sat and looked at Kirsty as her horse tore up the brae. 'She can ride can't she, mother? said Francis. 'Well enough for a hoiden, answered Mrs. Gordon.
Does the fond old man think that he is all the attraction! It worries you to find Nelly teasing him as she does; that mad hoiden will never be quiet; she provokes you excessively: and yet she is a dear creature; there is no meeting those laughing blue eyes of hers without a smile and an embrace!
When Ellen Bayard was informed that her little deliverer was in the house, she rushed into the parlor like a hoiden school girl, grasped both his hands, kissed both his rosy cheeks, and behaved just as though she had never been to a boarding school in her life. She had thought a great deal about Bobby since that eventful day, and the more she thought of him, the more she liked him.
All this that I have set down comes back to you long afterward, when you recall with tears of regret your reproachful words, or some swift outbreak of passion. Little Madge is a friend of Nelly's, a mischievous, blue-eyed hoiden. They tease you about Madge. You do not of course care one straw for her, but yet it is rather pleasant to be teased thus. Nelly never does this; oh no, not she.
Talking never mended matters; Jack was at the hoiden age, and had to grow into tidiness and womanhood by-and-by. After that I helped Deborah, and took up mother's breakfast. I always found her lying with her face to the window, and her open Bible beside her. Carrie had always been in before me and arranged the room.
"Well, I suppose I must endure that also; an aristocratic lecture on the one hand, and the uncouth affections of a hoiden on the other. It's hard enough, though." Tom now rang the bell, and in a few moments a servant entered. "Wilcox," said Norton, "get Taylor and M'Intyre to assist you in removing those five pictures; place them carefully in the green closet, which you will lock."
She is thoughtful; not breaking out, like the hoiden, flax-haired Nelly, into bursts of joy and singing, but stealing upon your heart with a gentle and quiet tenderness that diffuses itself throughout the household like a soft zephyr of summer. There are friends too yet left, who come in upon your evening hours, and light up the loitering time with dreamy story of the years that are gone.
She was a madcap and a hoiden a wild, hare-brained, fox-hunting Amazon all that was shocking and unwomanly, but, at the same time, all that was bright, beautiful, entrancing, irresistible.
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