Then you will see about that matter.

Remember I wish to know what Master More thinks of her, that--that I may know what to think." * * * * * Ralph understood sufficiently clearly, as he walked home in the evening light, what it was that his master wanted.

It was no less than to catch some handle against the ex-chancellor, though he had carefully abstained from saying so.

Ralph recognised the adroitness, and saw that while the directions had been plain and easy to understand, yet that not one word had been spoken that could by any means be used as a handle against Cromwell.

If anyone in England at that time knew how to wield speech it was his master; it was by that weapon that he had prevailed with the King, and still kept him in check; it was that weapon rashly used by his enemies that he was continually turning against them, and under his tutoring Ralph himself had begun to be practised in the same art.
Among other causes, too, of his admiration for Cromwell, was the latter's extraordinary business capacity.