"We are all more apt to think of ourselves than of others.

The girl promised you the vest this evening ?" "Yes." "And, so far as that was concerned, performed her contract.

Is the vest made so very badly ?" Mr.Lawson took up the garment, and examined it more carefully.
"Well, I can't say that the work is so very badly done.

But it is dreadfully soiled and rumpled, and is not as neat a job as it should be, nor at all such as I wished it.

The customer for whom it is intended is very particular, and I was anxious to please him." "All this is very annoying, of course; but still we should always be ready to make some excuse for the short-comings of others.