His contempt began to melt as he looked at him and saw those wise twinkling eyes, and strong humorous mouth, and remembered once more who he was, and his reputation.
Sir Thomas said grace with great gravity and signed himself reverently before he sat down.

There was a little reading first of the Scriptures and a commentary on it, and then as dinner went on Ralph began to attend less and less to his hostess, who, indeed appeared wholly absorbed in domestic details of the table and with whispering severely to the servants behind her hand, and to listen and look towards the further end where Sir Thomas sat in his tall chair, his flapped cap on his head, and talked to his daughters on either side.

Mr.Roper, the man who had come in with Mrs.More, was sitting opposite Ralph, and seemed to be chiefly occupied in listening too.

A bright-looking tall girl, whom her father had introduced by the name of Cecily, sat between Ralph and her father.
"Not at all," cried Sir Thomas, in answer to something that Ralph did not catch, "nothing of the kind! It was Juno that screamed.

Argus would not condescend to it.