The idea of calling my Johnny a bad boy.

Why, my lord, he was his father's own boy.

You've only to look at him; and if he was a bit of a romp, why, so were you and I in our day." "Speak for yourself," said Henry the Eighth severely.

"But what about Becket ?" "Ah, well, there was a little accident, I believe, about him, and he got hurt.

But I assure you I never touched him; in fact, I was a hundred miles away at the time.