(But neither of the happy little truants knows that a thief is running off with their clothes.)]

He was homesick for Weimar, and was a constant truant from Rome.

Sophia, the elder of the two daughters at home, told him that he was a false truant; and Jemima surmised that the great attractions of the London season had prevented him from coming down to Enfield.

Who should be at your side at this bitter moment, my dear Miles, if it be not Rupert, your old friend and play-mate; your fellow truant, as one might say, and almost your brother?" Almost my brother!

They say the most hopeless truants and triflers have come to it.

How the eyes of Marianne feasted on the reclaimed truants!