It is a cruel thing to a wife to have a truant husband!

My truant husband shall dine with me and confess his silly pranks and be forgiven.

After a time Mrs. M'Lehose returned from the West Indies, but without having recovered her truant husband.

'Remember, I brought back a truant husband to you twenty years ago.'

'Where is this truant husband of thine, my lady?'

"There's comfort in that!" exclaimed the truant husband and brother, with a sigh that seemed to relieve a very loaded breast.