Produced by Daniel Fromont <daniel.fromont@cnc.fr> April 2005 2005 is the 150th anniversary of Mrs. Hungerford's birthday. Mrs. Hungerford (Margaret Wolfe Hamilton) (1855?-1897) The Hoyden (1894) Tauchnitz edition _The Hoyden_ reviewed in the _Scotsman_ : "A clever, sprightly story... Fresh, sunshiny, and delightful" COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS TAUCHNITZ EDITION. VOL. 2956. THE HOYDEN. BY MRS. HUNGERFORD. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. TAUCHNITZ EDITION. By the same Author. MOLLY BAWN 2 vols. MRS. GEOFFREY 2 vols. FAITH AND UNFAITH 2 vols. PORTIA 2 vols. LOYS, LORD BERRESFORD, ETC. 1 vol. HER FIRST APPEARANCE, ETC. 1 vol. PHYLLIS 2 vols. ROSSMOYNE 2 vols. DORIS 2 vols. A MAIDEN ALL FORLORN, ETC. 1 vol. A PASSIVE CRIME, ETC. 1 vol. GREEN PLEASURE AND GREY GRIEF 2 vols. A MENTAL STRUGGLE 2 vols. HER WEEK'S AMUSEMENT, ETC. 1 vol. LADY BRANKSMERE 2 vols. LADY VALWORTH'S DIAMONDS 1 vol. A MODERN CIRCE 2 vols. MARVEL 2 vols. THE HON. MRS. VEREKER 1 vol. UNDER-CURRENTS 2 vols. IN DURANCE VILE, ETC. 1 vol. A TROUBLESOME GIRL, ETC. 1 vol. A LIFE'S REMORSE 2 vols. A BORN COQUETTE 2 vols. THE DUCHESS 1 vol. LADY VERNER'S FLIGHT 1 vol. A CONQUERING HEROINE, ETC. 1 vol. NORA CREINA 2 vols. A MAD PRANK, ETC. 1 vol. THE HOYDEN A NOVEL BY MRS. HUNGERFORD AUTHOR OF "MOLLY BAWN," "PHYLLIS," "A CONQUERING HEROINE," ETC. ETC. _COPYRIGHT EDITION._ IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LEIPZIG BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ 1894. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. CHAPTER I. How Diamond cut Diamond, and how the Sparks flew CHAPTER II. How Margaret pleads for the little Hoyden, and with what Ill-success CHAPTER III. How Lady Rylton says a few Things that would have been better left unsaid. How "The Scheme" is laid before Sir Maurice, and how he refuses to have anything to do with it CHAPTER IV. How the Heart of Maurice grew hot within him, and how he put the Question to the Touch, and how he neither lost nor won CHAPTER V. Showing how, when People do congregate together much Knowledge may be found, and how the little Hoyden has some kind Things said about her CHAPTER VI. How Games were played, "of Sorts"; and how Tita was much harried, but how she bore herself valiantly, and, how, not knowing of her Victories, she won all through CHAPTER VII. How the Argument grows higher; and how Marian loses her Temper, and how Margaret objects to the Ruin of one young Life CHAPTER VIII. How a Storm raged; and how, when a Man and Woman met Face to Face, the Victory--for a Wonder--went to the Man CHAPTER IX. How Maurice places his Life in the Hands of the Hoyden, and how she tells him many Things, and desires many Things of him CHAPTER X. How Maurice gives Way to Temper, and how Lady Rylton plants a Shaft or two. And how Margaret says a Word in Season, and how in return Colonel Neilson says a Word to her CHAPTER XI.