She was prepared to hear and to forgive the errors of inexperience and precipitation.

I did not fully participate in her satisfaction, but was nevertheless most zealously disposed to listen to his narrative.
My engagements obliged me to postpone this rehearsal till late in the evening.

Collected then round a cheerful hearth, exempt from all likelihood of interruption from without, and our babe's unpractised senses shut up in the sweetest and profoundest sleep, Mervyn, after a pause of recollection, began..