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She did not understand it. And now that she had failed, the catastrophe in the cellar loomed larger, and she saw her nocturnal truancy as a serious thing. What would Aunt Jamsiah think of this? Pepsy had been forbidden to go away from the farm at night, except to weekly prayer meeting.
The last picture flashing before his eyes, as he sat there alone, was of himself and his elder brother, Garnett, now master of Castlegarry, racing ponies to reach the lodge-gates before they closed for the night, after a day of disobedience and truancy.
She is an adept in one only of the vices of the school whispering and in that she excels. But she does not so readily resort to the great vice the crime of falsehood as do her companions of the other sex. I call falsehood the great vice, because, if this were unknown, tardiness, truancy, obscenity, and profanity, could not thrive.
He approached her with all his old tact in the art d'arborer le cotillon; not hurriedly, so as to attract notice, but carefully, so as to glide into a place near her. "You promised me this waltz," he said very gently in her ear. "I have come in time for it." She recognized him by his voice, and turned from a French prince to rebuke him for his truancy, with gay raillery and much anger.
Already Nemesis was on their trail. Sick at heart and weighted with forebodings, Larry listened to the plans of the other boys by which they expected to elude the consequences of their truancy. In the discussion of their plans Larry took no part. They offered him no hope. He knew that if he were prepared to lie, as they had cheerfully decided, his simple word would carry him through at home.
After a few years he came into trouble with his master for laziness and truancy, and received a severe beating; his mother intervened and got the master dismissed from his post, and Butzbach was removed from the school. Butzbach's manuscripts from Laach are now in the University Library at Bonn, but have never been printed. I have used a German translation by D.J. Becker, Regensburg, 1869.
Luckily for him, his father was absent at a Vigilance Committee called to take cognizance of the late sluice robberies, and although this temporarily concealed his offense of truancy, the news of the vigilance meeting determined him to keep his lips sealed.
A truce to this truancy, and method be my maxim: let us for a moment link our reasonings, and solder one stray rivet; man being a writing animal, there still remains the question, what is writing? And what, O what "how poor is he that hath not patience!" shall we predicate of the average viscera of circulating libraries? abominable viscera! isn't that the word, my young Hippocrates?
"The country is beautiful in the autumn, isn't it, Mark?" Mark was as embarrassed as any small boy caught in truancy. "I thought you took things rather quietly, Father I might have known it was too good to be true. What did you come here for? You surely knew it was something we could not have you concerned in." The priest laughed at Mark's rueful tone.
Twitt were constant visitors, and many were the would-be jocose remarks of the old stonemason on David's temporary truancy. "Wanted more work, did ye?" And thrusting his hands deep in the pockets of his corduroys, Twitt looked at him with a whimsical complacency. "Well, why didn't ye come down to the stoneyard an' learn 'ow to cut a hepitaph?
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