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Updated: June 18, 2025
"I take you for a lady who, for a long time, got the better of the police and the magistrates, and who managed to shift all the trouble off your own shoulders on to those of other people. You have heard that they have taken one of the thieves?" "And they have got the girl." "Have they? I didn't know that. That scoundrel Benjamin has levanted too." "Levanted!" said Lizzie, raising both her hands.
The public vehemently combated Mrs. Betty's verdict, in vain; they were forced to lament during twice nine days their vanished favourite, who had levanted so unceremoniously beyond the reach of their good graces. A formal but friendly letter came to Mistress Betty, when her life was one of long dusty exertion, and her heart was very thirsty and parched.
"I suppose you have not heard that one young man levanted last year to save himself from a breach of promise case?" "I wonder whether he had any money in Indian securities?" "What makes you ask that?" "Nothing particular." "Whatever little he had he chose to save, and I think I heard that he went to Canada.
The ham was gone that much was certain. "I believe Peter Crow has levanted with the ham," I said decidedly. "I don't believe Peter Crow could be so dishonest," said Kate rather shortly. "His wife has worked for us for years, and she's as honest as the sunlight." "Honesty isn't catching," I remarked, but I said nothing more just then, for Kate's black eyes were snapping.
Following the same system of concealment, my lady levanted from London within ten days of her confinement. "Now put all these coincidences together. Don't you see that she had a lover, and that he was about her in London and other places? Stop! Fact 10.
"As Heaven is my witness !" exclaimed Sir Stephen; but Falconer went on: "You didn't wait to see if it were true or not; you cleared out before I'd time to get back, and you took precious good care not to make enquiries. No; directly your partner's back was turned you sold him; got the price and levanted."
'I was down at his house, bedad, the "Brass Castle," if you plase, and not a brass farthin' for my pains, nothing there but an ould woman, as ould and as ugly as himself, or the divil be gannies! An' he's levanted, or else tuck for debt. Brass Castle! brass forehead, bedad.
At first Charteris was inclined to think that things need not have gone so far. "You'll laugh me to scorn," he said, "but I give you my word I'd have rode after Sher Singh, just as I was, the moment I heard he had levanted, and caught him up on the road." "Or been caught by him, and held as a hostage." "No, I would have done it before he got to cover here, and brought him back dead or alive."
"We dare not trust him," said the Major, "Lord bless you, when the call-boy would sing out for Captain Beaugarde in the second act, we'd find that he had Levanted with our best slashed trowsers, and a bird of paradise feather in his cap."
They had a skirmish on Salinas plains that didn't decide much, and then Alvarado and Castro marched south, from ranch to ranch, you just levanted in time, persuadin' the rancheros to uphold their cause and give 'em their sons. As they have a way with 'em, of course they got all the recruits they wanted, to say nothin' of the finest horses in stock caponara after caponara.
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