The Hoyden eBook

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 468 pages of information about The Hoyden.

The Hoyden eBook

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 468 pages of information about The Hoyden.

BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ

1894.

CONTENTS

OF VOLUME II.

CHAPTER I.

How Minnie Hescott gives Tita a Hint; and learns that Hints may be thrown away; and how Margaret’s Soul is grieved

CHAPTER II.

How Tita commits a great Folly, though little is the Sin that lies therein.  And how Margaret tries to make Peace, and what comes of it

CHAPTER III.

How Mr. Gower grows darkly mysterious; and how Tita hears of the Arrival of another Guest

CHAPTER IV.

How Tita’s Soul at last is stirred; and how her Happiness is threatened and herself set at naught; and how Minnie Hescott speaks

CHAPTER V.

How Miss Gower goes for a pleasant Row upon the Lake with her
Nephew; and how she admires the Sky and Water; and how presently
Fear falls on her; and how Death threatens her; and how by a mere
Scratch of a Pen she regains Shore and Life

CHAPTER VI.

How all the House Party at Oakdean grow frivolous in the Absence of the Lord and Master; and how Mrs. Bethune encourages a Game of Hide-and-seek; and how, after many Escapes, Tita is caught at last

CHAPTER VII.

How Tita is “caught,” but by one whom she did not expect; and how she played with Fire for a little Bit; and how finally she ran away

CHAPTER VIII.

How Tita, having been repulsed, grows angry; and how a very pretty Battle is fought out; and how Tita gains a Present; and how Sir Maurice loses his Temper

CHAPTER IX.

How Mrs. Bethune is brought before the Bar; and how she gives her Evidence against Tita; and how Maurice’s Mother desires an Interview with Maurice’s Wife

CHAPTER X.

How “that Girl” was “seen” by the Dowager Lady Rylton; and how Tita held her small Head very high, and fought a good Fight with the Enemy

CHAPTER XI.

How Tita goes for a Walk with two sad Companions—­Anger and Despair; and how she meets Sir Maurice; and how she introduces him to Anger

CHAPTER XII.

How Tita, running from the Enemy, suddenly finds herself Face to Face with another Foe; and how she fights a second Battle, and comes off victorious

CHAPTER XIII.

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