The Frenchman who wrote les absents ont toujours tort was undoubtedly thinking of the field as left in possession of a woman, and that Mrs. Sanford's recital of the trouble was a finished calumny at Marion's expense we are spared the necessity of asserting.
"Marion's Faith."
Charles King
Mrs. Little divined as much from Grace's letters and messages to herself; and she said, with a smile, You see 'Les absents n'ont pas toujours tort.
"Put Yourself in His Place"
Charles Reade
I trust, therefore, that you will not be displeased with your Haydn, who, often as his Prince absents himself from Estoras, never can obtain leave, even for four-and-twenty hours, to go to Vienna.
"Haydn"
J. Cuthbert Hadden