But at Court a man went wrong if he held a thing unlikely because there was dishonour in it.

There men were not ashamed to be spies themselves, nor to use their wives in the same office.

There to see no evil was to shut your eyes.

I determined to keep mine open in the interests of my new patron, of an older friend, and perhaps of myself also, for Carford's present civility scarcely masked his dislike.
We reached Canterbury while the light of the long summer evening still served, and clattered up the street in muddy bravery.

The town was out to see his Grace, and his Grace was delighted to be seen by the town.
If, of their courtesy, they chose to treat him as a Prince, he could scarcely refuse their homage, and if he accepted it, it was better to accept like one to the manner born than awkwardly; yet I wondered whether my lord made a note in his aspiring brain of all that passed, and how soon the Duke of York would know that a Prince of Wales, coming to Canterbury, could have received no greater honour.