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In dealing with public men and with other people that we know less than we know ourselves if they really do things, it is well to make allowances, and let them off at 65. In some cases, in fact, when men are doing something that no one else volunteers to do for a world, I find I get on very well with letting them off at 51.
The audience which gives the final verdict on a farce makes allowances for the author; permits him the use of certain conventions. For example, he is given leave to introduce a hotel corridor into his last act with seven doors opening on a common hallway so that his characters may conveniently and persistently enter the wrong rooms.
"I have taken a solemn oath never to bet again," he said that evening to Captain Mallett, who was a general favourite with the younger officers; "and I mean to keep it." "How much do you owe, young 'un?" "Four hundred and fifty. What with allowances and so on, I ought to be able to pay it off in three or four years."
More than two weeks had elapsed since Gurin's wedding, and, making due allowances for honeymooning, it seemed to Morris that from an inspection of Mrs. Gladstein's stock, made by him on a congratulatory visit to Bridgetown, there was immediate need for replenishment. "I don't understand why we don't hear from them people at all," he said. "Give 'em a show, Mawruss. Give 'em a show," Abe replied.
Set your face steadily against all increase of salary, all extra allowances, all plausible claims for additional emolument. A Mr. Pollock, the first deputy, is in receipt of 8,000l. or 9,000l. a year as his own share of the profits; other deputies and persons unnecessarily employed have profits amounting to 1,200l. or 1,400l. a year each.
The conception of justice in Rome never rested upon any equality, but always upon the precedence of one order over another, from the highest to the lowest. There were orders even among the slaves, and one who had been allowed to save money out of his allowances could himself buy a slave to wait on him, if he chose.
"In my day," continued Aunt Jane complacently, helping herself to strawberries, "the motto was: 'Little boys should be seen and not heard. To-night, of course, I make allowances; but things will be different presently. David, you surely are not giving those children wine?" "Oh, they generally have a little sip each from my port," said Mr. Delaney; "it does not do them any harm."
Calms, light breezes, and currents made every thing uncertain. Nor had we any method of estimating our due westward progress, except by what is called Dead Reckoning, the computation of the knots run hourly; allowances' being made for the supposed deviations from our course, by reason of the ocean streams; which at times in this quarter of the Pacific rim with very great velocity.
But it wasn't the language of flowers that I saw in her eyes. So I told her that she must make allowances for you, as you were only a half-baked boy, and that, naturally, if she stuck a hat-pin into your crust she was going to strike a raw streak here and there.
I'm just everything. And then 'e goes and gives me notice." "Why would no one stay?" I asked. "Well, they wouldn't make allowances, same as I do. 'E's a very clever man, the master so clever that 'e's clean balmy sometimes. I've seen 'im right off 'is onion, and no error. Well, look what 'e did this morning." "What did he do?" Austin bent over to me.
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