First let me confess that our attachment was something of a secret, for there was considerable difference in our social positions; I had known her for years, indeed ever since her hoydenish days when she had worn short frocks.
Agnes Kenway was not wholly past the hoydenish stage, in spite of her grown-up airs.
It was true Agnes was hoydenish at times, and loved to play with Neale O'Neil and the other boys; but she was growing older every day, too, and many of the secrets and interests of girlhood she could share only with Ruth.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and then the stately woman and the hoydenish girl, with one accord, burst out laughing.
Most important of all, however, was the departure of Count Las Cases, who had never failed to frown on Betsy's hoydenish pranks.
Las Cases, however, was always ready to criticise Miss Betsy, whose hoydenish ways he could never understand.
Thank them, and good-by, and please don't ever come and bother her again with their hoydenish ways.
She was periodically banished to distant schools by a mother who disliked romping and hoydenish little girls, as much as she doted on fat and wheezing lap-dogs.
Though not destitute of womanly qualities, she was more remarkable for hoydenish ones; and her tastes were peculiar and varied.
This was no hoydenish [162] tussle with an unnerved man who thought you were a panther!
Alice, as a rather hoydenish school girl, home for the summer, played havoc with the admirers of the romantic Ruth, who seemed to fill the rôle to perfection.
When it came time for Alice to act the part of a hoydenish character, she was exceedingly natural in it, and her laugh at the simulated discomfiture of Mr. Harrison was so spontaneous that even some of the others joined in.
Digby is a dear good boy, and Kate is a clever little thing, though slightly hoydenish I own, but every one may see at a glance that she is a perfect little lady as Digby is a gentleman.
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