But the next morning he was both astounded and relieved, at the assembling of school, to find the three truants back in their places.
The master's pardon obtained, the three truants cared little for the opinion of Hemlock Hill.
It was in fact the truants from our company, poor Rader and his five friends.
A description of the deserters had been telegraphed long ago to all the stations in Algeria, the police all along the coast were on the look-out, and in a few days we should see the truants brought back to the regiment.
They go on like this without stopping all through the night, and in the morning the truants are a good sixty kilometres from the garrison.
The truants often return to me and beg to be taken back; and then, if my familiar allows me, which is not always the case, I receive them, and they begin to grow again.
Truants of society both, they enjoyed their truancy as much for what they left behind, as for what they went to seek.
The truantsof life's weary school, Without excuse from thrift We change for once the gains of toil For God's unpurchased gift.
I think we shall have to do lessons with her one day first," said Jack, "because we shan't be proper truants unless we do.
The truants will have to stay in school till late in July, several weeks longer than the regular schools.
The truants who are brought in are housed and fed and taught.
She slipped her little feet into her sabots, or wooden shoes, and took the road to Altdorf, hurrying along as fast as she could, in hope of overtaking the truants before they reached the town.
It was nearly two hours before the truants were missed by Henric's mother and Lalotte; for they were all that time busy in the dairy.
The two boys on the box pulled their caps over their eyes, and said not a word till the truants were clear.
When finally it was recovered, and progress was resumed, full five minutes had been lost over the search, by which time the truants had got a clear half-mile to the good, and were safe.
The bell for call-over put an end to their talk, and with lighter hearts than most in Willoughby they walked across to the Great Hall and heard the doctor's sentence on the truants of yesterday.
And it was the same reason which prompted him on the afternoon spoken of in the last chapter, much against his inclination, to accost the three truants in Shellport, and request Wyndham to come to his study.
The four truantswere very glad indeed of the hot baths and basins of bread and milk that were waiting for them.
He rejoins Mrs. Le Marchant, whose unaccountable fears have led her beyond the house's shelter out into the rain, where she stands looking down that river of mud which represents the road by which she hopes to see the truants reappear.
It seemed a magnificent solution of the problem; and on the strength of it the five truants departed, not without misgivings, for their quarters.
The truants were ordered to the hot bath and bed at once, and a council was held as to what should be done.
The evening wore on, and still thetruants did not return.
Hot baths, blankets, food, and a little physic, succeeded in a very few days in restoring the invalided truants to their sorrowing class-mates.
Physical examinations show now, and might just as well have shown fifty years ago, that the great majority of truants and juvenile offenders have adenoids and enlarged tonsils.
Not only has it no truants itself, but it ferrets out a lot who are truants from necessity, not from choice, and delivers them over to the public school.
Testimony to the same effect is borne by a different set of records, those of the reformatories that receive the truants of the city.
The "institutions designated by law" for the reception of truants are chiefly the Protectory and the Juvenile Asylum.
But even there the percentage of truants to those committed for stealing or other crimes was as 53 to 47.
Truants from love, we dream of wrath; Oh, rather let us trust the more!
It was now after eleven o'clock, and it would soon be time for the truants to return home.
The truants were all punished; and as the schoolmistress promised to send word to their homes when either of them was absent again, they had no chance to "hook jack" afterwards.
Of one other character who took an important if an unobtrusive part in shaping the fortunes of the Truants a final word may be said.
In the early days of January the Truantsarrived in London at the close of a long visit to Scotland.
This was the real history of the truants with whose fortunes those of Warrisden and Pamela were to be so closely intermingled.
The memory of the star-lit night, in last July, when from this balcony they had watched the truants slip down the steps and furtively call a cab, was busy in their thoughts.
It was by his doing that the truants gave up their cheery little house in Deanery Street and came to live in Berkeley Square.
That is where the truants lived last July," said Warrisden, in a low voice.
I have no doubt that the truants lived there, and that the new road begins at the foot of the steps," he said plaintively; "but neither statement adds materially to my knowledge.
Only a few days had passed since Warrisden had pointed out the truants from the window of Lady Millingham's house, and had speculated upon the seclusion of their lives.
The light went up in the room on the second floor, and the truants crept out.
I wish those truants would hurry back and take us to the island," said Carrie.
I suppose those truants will be only too glad to be rid of us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "truants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
