(For as to that malicious purpose which Sophia suspected, it never once entered into the head of Mr Allworthy.) He at length concluded with again blaming the action as inconsiderate, and which, he said, was
pardonable only in a child.
I only know that I never yet heard her admit any instance of a second attachment's being
pardonable."
He thought it a very degrading alliance; and Lady Russell, though with more tempered and
pardonable pride, received it as a most unfortunate one.
As descendants of old English nobles still cherish in the traditions of their houses how that this king or that king tarried a day with some favored ancestor three hundred years ago, no doubt the descendants of the woman of Samaria, living there in Shechem, still refer with
pardonable vanity to this conversation of their ancestor, held some little time gone by, with the Messiah of the Christians.
Tracy Tupman--the too susceptible Tupman, who to the wisdom and experience of maturer years superadded the enthusiasm and ardour of a boy in the most interesting and
pardonable of human weaknesses--love.
Next day Amy was rather late at school, but could not resist the temptation of displaying, with
pardonable pride, a moist brown-paper parcel, before she consigned it to the inmost recesses of her desk.
As for Captain Speedy, he was shut up in his cabin under lock and key, and was uttering loud cries, which signified an anger at once
pardonable and excessive.
The Admiral hated marriage, and thought it never
pardonable in a young man of independent fortune.
"But, sir, he has fled; let him escape -- inaction is a
pardonable offence."
Antonio hesitated a little in his answer, and stammered while giving it--"It was in the wars," at length he got out, and Julia admired the noble magnanimity which would not allow him, even in imagination, to suffer in a less glorious manner--notwithstanding his eye is safe and as beautiful as the other, he has suffered in the wars, thought our heroine, and it is
pardonable for him to use the deception, situated as he is--it is nothing more than an equivoque.
And with
pardonable pride he fitted on the cap and bells, and the rest of the Fool's dress, and winked at her, and put his tongue in his cheek.
"And from these circumstances," he replied (his quick eye fixed on hers), "you infer perhaps the probability of some negligence -- some" -- (involuntarily she shook her head) -- "or it may be -- of something still less
pardonable." She raised her eyes towards him more fully than she had ever done before.