Their former levity had given place to a seriousness of manner which was very different.

Lois rose and went behind the blanket to the loop, and Lana said, with a trace of her former levity:

Whether he might have recovered his former levity can scarcely be answered, but the death of Rodolph seemed to have extinguished it forever.

His former levity forsook him, and Anne wondered at this change in him, and brooded over the possible cause of his serious and unintelligible silences.

"Don't thank me," he laughed, with a prompt return of his former levity, "that's my trade.

"You will find them, I suspect, from Dan to Beersheba," responded the youth with a resumption of his former levity.