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Hoyden, Hoiden, hoi′den, n. a tomboy, a romp.

Only an hour later Mr. Pearl and Hoiden stood at the new station on Luke's land, waiting for the east-going train.

In the more innocent sense of the word she looked like her name, Hoiden.

A bright face set in a mass of yellow curls, a wee white hand all spangled with jewels, a voice sweeter than any bird's, a name—Hoiden Pearl—these rang, and danced, and echoed, and shone in the recesses of his brain and heart to the exclusion of all else.

Hoiden Pearl was in the focus of all his thoughts; her face lighted his dreams, her voice made the music that charmed him into a wonderland of bliss.