Besides, I was using my eyes with all my might, wondering as the old horse jogged on, when I should come into London proper, and what it would be like now.
But my companion couldn't let his subject quite drop, and went on meditatively: "After all, I don't know that it does them much harm, even if they do grow up book-students.

Such people as that, 'tis a great pleasure seeing them so happy over work which is not much sought for.

And besides, these students are generally such pleasant people; so kind and sweet tempered; so humble, and at the same time so anxious to teach everybody all that they know.

Really, I like those that I have met prodigiously." This seemed to me such very queer talk that I was on the point of asking him another question; when just as we came to the top of a rising ground, down a long glade of the wood on my right I caught sight of a stately building whose outline was familiar to me, and I cried out, "Westminster Abbey!" "Yes," said Dick, "Westminster Abbey--what there is left of it." "Why, what have you done with it ?" quoth I in terror.
"What have _we_ done with it ?" said he; "nothing much, save clean it.

But you know the whole outside was spoiled centuries ago: as to the inside, that remains in its beauty after the great clearance, which took place over a hundred years ago, of the beastly monuments to fools and knaves, which once blocked it up, as great-grandfather says." We went on a little further, and I looked to the right again, and said, in rather a doubtful tone of voice, "Why, there are the Houses of Parliament! Do you still use them ?" He burst out laughing, and was some time before he could control himself; then he clapped me on the back and said: "I take you, neighbour; you may well wonder at our keeping them standing, and I know something about that, and my old kinsman has given me books to read about the strange game that they played there.