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Find out what they imagine they know. He died of a Tuesday. Got the run. Levanted with the cash of a few ads. Charley, you're my darling. That was why he asked me to. O well, does no harm. I saw to that, M'Coy. Thanks, old chap: much obliged. Leave him under an obligation: costs nothing. And tell us, Hynes said, do you know that fellow in the, fellow was over there in the... He looked around.
Marie drew back as though she had been struck; yet her grip did not leave my arm, but tightened on it. "The necklace?" she gasped. And the duchess, using the most scornful words she knew and giving a short little laugh, said. "Your mother has levanted with the necklace. Of course you didn't know!"
The Regiment would go on to Umballa, and Kim would be sent up, partly at the expense of the Lodge and in part by subscription, to a place called Sanawar. 'It's miraculous past all whooping, Colonel, said Father Victor, when he had talked without a break for ten minutes. 'His Buddhist friend has levanted after taking my name and address.
There he was, to answer any charge which might be brought against him. If he had made money by losing the race, where was it and whence had it come? Was it not clear that a conspiracy might have been made without his knowledge; and clear also that the real conspirators had levanted? He had not levanted! The hounds were his own.
Grace, while musing on her new half-crown it was strange how long she looked at it had heard with real amazement that uproarious huzzaing! and, just as her father had levanted for the beer, glided down from her closet, and received the wondrous tidings from her step-mother.
"Orlando booked for the sleeper going East in thirty minutes; but the sleeper was for one only, and that one was his mother, you old hippopotamus. . . . But I wonder where she is where the divine Louise is? She hasn't levanted with her Orlando. . . . Now, I wonder!" he added. Then, with a sudden impulse, he dug heels into his horse's sides, and galloped back towards Askatoon.
Grace, while musing on her new half-crown it was strange how long she looked at it had heard with real amazement that uproarious huzzaing! and, just as her father had levanted for the beer, glided down from her closet, and received the wondrous tidings from her step-mother.
As it is I think I shall be back a week or two before my time is properly up, lest you and one or two others should think that I have levanted altogether. I have no hesitation in saying that more fortunes are lost in business by trembling cowardice than by any amount of imprudence or extravagance.
In the past three days he had levanted with jewels which had once been an Emperor's and certainly were not his; he had burglariously entered and made free of a strange house; he had played hide-and-seek at the risk of his neck and had wrestled in the dark with a foreign miscreant; he had shot at an eminent solicitor with intent to kill; and he was now engaged in tramping the world with a fairytale Princess.
He was certainly an adept in the profitable transfer of shares: so much so, indeed, that at length the shareholders revolted against their pious chairman, and appointed a committee to investigate his proceedings. Whereupon this modern Knight of the Holy Ghost levanted, preferring to resign rather than face the inquiry. This is the man who asked in the House of Commons whether Mr.
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