No matter if a dull headache or the painful cough of slow consumption had delayed the absentee, there was only time enough to mark the tardiness.

But absence on that occasion in no way excluded the absentee from the other balls.

He resolved to interview the absentees.

The losing of employees has become so serious and general that big industries have engaged women who devote their time to looking up absentees and finding out why each worker left.

The company without were too good-natured and well satisfied with each other to miss the absentees, until the figure of the earl appeared at the reopened door, beckoning, with a face of rapture, to Lady Moseley and Mrs. Wilson.

In due course "Skilly" presented an absentee and unidentifiable spouse with five bouncing baby kittens.

His father looked surprised at this, not to say a little grave; and he waited, with evident curiosity, for the gifts of Maud, as one thing after another came up, without any signs of her having recollected the absentee.

"Sahwah must be out taking a morning walk," announced Hinpoha, when her horn blast had failed to rout out the absentee, "she's forever exercising herself in the early morning hoursas if we didn't get enough exercise doing military drill!

When the labours of the day were over, plans were proposed for getting up a concert, or a new play, in order to surprise the absentees on their return.