He was occupied in dancing before the bantams." Ralph lost one of the few remarks that Mrs.More addressed to him, in wondering what this meant, and the conversation at the other end swept round a corner while he was apologising.

When he again caught the current Sir Thomas was speaking of wherries.
"I would love to row a wherry," he said.

"The fellows do not know their fortune; they might lead such sweet meditative lives; they do not, I am well aware, for I have never heard such blasphemy as I have heard from wherrymen.

But what opportunities are theirs! If I were not your father, my darling, I would be a wherryman.

_Si cognovisses et tu quae ad pacem tibi_! Mr.Torridon, would you not be a wherryman if you were not Mr.
Torridon ?" "I thought not this morning," said Ralph, "as I came here.