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But I can make allowances for schoolgirl pranks. I was a school girl once myself, and far from a model one. You have atoned for your mistake by coming so frankly and confessing, and now we'll forget all about it. I think you have learned your lesson. Both of you must just sit down and spend the evening with us. Dear me, but you are bewilderingly alike!"
My men all mutinied here for increase of ration allowances. To find themselves food with, I had given them all one necklace of beads each per diem since leaving Kaze, in lieu of cloth, which hitherto had been served out for that purpose. It was a very liberal allowance, because the Arabs never gave more than one necklace to every three men, and that, too, of inferior quality to what I served.
"You've been so perfect to me," he began again. "It's not my fault if you've made me feel that you would understand everything make allowances for everything see just how a man may have held out, and fought against a thing as long as he had the strength.... This may be my only chance; and I can't go away without telling you."
Even the bearing of baskets, and the majority of the women carried them, was justification under the customs of the country for baring the throat and chest to give ample scope for breathing, and there is no restriction in the maintenance of the drooping lines of demarkation, according to the most liberal fashionable allowances, in dispensing with all the misty suggestions of laces to the utmost extent artists could ask, for the study of figures.
It was all my own fault, my own want of proper thoughtfulness and caution. If I misconducted myself last night, as I am afraid I did, pray make allowances " "Nonsense!" cried Zack, seeing that Mat was beginning to fidget away from Valentine, instead of returning an answer. "Nonsense! you were glorious company. We were three choice spirits, and you were number One of the social Trio.
He was always asking for increased allowances, advanced rank, more assistance, less work, higher privileges, immunities which could not be granted, and advantages to which he had no claim.
The apprentices came with baskets to get their allowances. It resembled a market scene, much chattering and talking, but no anger. Each man, woman, and child, as they got their baskets filled, placed them of their heads, and marched off to their several huts. On Tuesday morning, at an early hour, Mr. C. took us in his phaeton on our projected excursion. It was a beautiful morning.
Well, I suppose one must make allowances for the Puritan character." "Brandon isn't much of a Puritan, and he's certainly not a prig," Jake objected. Kenwardine laughed. "I'm not sure this explanation makes things much better, but we'll let it go. We were talking about the new water supply. It's a harmless subject and you ought to be interested."
He had seen what trouble other elder sons could give their fathers, what demands were made for increased allowances, what disreputable pursuits were sometimes followed, what quarrels there were, what differences, what want of affection and want of respect! He was wise enough to have perceived all this, and to be aware that he was in some respects singularly blest.
I expect, continued he, that you will answer me directly, and plainly, to every question I shall ask you. In the first place, here are several love-letters between you and Williams. Love-letters! sir, said I. Well, call them what you will, said he, I don't entirely like them, I'll assure you, with all the allowances you desired me to make for you.
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