She spoke critically perhaps, but pardonably so.
His heart leaped at the shock and he exclaimed unprofessionally, but pardonably.
A moment later entered her father, his dark-red face pardonably gleaming like a moon through the haze at the charms of his only daughter.
It was close, she had been on her feet almost two hours, she was pardonably annoyed at this staring girl--and she showed it.
After a lingering--and pardonably pleased--look at herself in a long mirror, she descended, mounted and rode slowly down toward town.
Beset by the national vice of flowery embellishment, they were also pardonably ignorant of savage life, and had an indiscriminating thirst for the marvelous.
They have reached their first resting-place, and pardonably enjoy the opportunity of looking back at the road they have traversed.
