"Pardonably" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... more openly to her pupil than she yet had done. Her father had introduced him, a few days before, to a new work of hers on Mathematics; and the delighted and adoring look with which the boy welcomed her, as he met her in the Museum Gardens, pardonably tempted her curiosity to inquire what miracles her own wisdom might have already worked. She stopped in her walk, and motioned her father to begin ...
— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley |
