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At one of the committee meetings Balzac was prevented from attending by a three days' confinement in a dirty lock-up at Sevres, the cause being the old one which had partly driven him from Paris his unwillingness to go, as he humorously put it, into the vineyards of his village, and, dressed in uniform, to see that truants from Paris were not eating the grapes.

Prudy, who was sitting at a little distance, under a swing-table, eating ginger snaps, was suddenly seized upon by the two little Indian constables. "Why, what an idea!" said Prudy, with her mouth full; "I didn't know that was the way to play it." "Yes," said Susy, "truants must come to school. If they don't come they must be arrested."

I thought Papa would have her here! and the freckled face of a Miss Harewood was seen peering in. There the truants were, eager, hurried, afraid for the train, full of compunction, for the long abandonment: Alice, most apologetic; Wilmet, most quiet; Felix, most attentive; Robina, still ecstatic; and Angela, tired out there they all were.

Mrs Wallace was undecided whether to laugh or to cry as she welcomed her truants and listened to the story of their adventures. Nothing would satisfy her but to despatch Pixie to bed forthwith, to that young lady's intense mortification, and to order the Captain upstairs to have a hot bath and a dose of quinine.

Rudely I averted my gaze. I will make it my positive duty to see that you receive food, and shelter from this overpowering heat." "No, sir, let us alone. You are very kind; but you are mistaken in judging us to be truants from home." No further conversation ensued; the train came to a halt.

Then came the shuffling noise of the old nun's footsteps returning; she evidently caught the two truants, whoever they were, for I heard her expostulating, scolding and apostrophizing the saints all in a breath, as she bade them go inside the house and ask the good little Jesus to forgive their naughtiness.

Great were the rejoicings of those left on board the Flying Fish at the safe return of the truants; and equally great, perhaps, was the joy of the truants at finding themselves re-united to their companions, and once more amid the familiar surroundings of their luxurious travelling home.

We find here, and in too large quantity to be a negligible factor, the atmosphere, the conditions, the associations, that help greatly to breed incorrigibles, truants, and laggards in our schools; that develop juvenile delinquents, hasty marriages, and early divorces; that send into the world paupers, grafters, and criminals.

Of course we looked for punishment a closer imprisonment, solitary confinement maybe but nothing of the kind happened. They treated us as truants only, and as if they quite understood our truancy.

Goldthwaite from the other side of the table-cloth. "I don't know when I enjoyed anything so well." "Hunger is good sauce," said the judge; "here are the truants." Mr. George Keane and Miss Goldthwaite appeared now, apparently very much astonished to find themselves behind time.