However, I daresay we shall have a pretty good gathering at our mid-day meal." We drove through the quadrangle and by an archway, into a large handsome stable on the other side, where we speedily stalled the old nag and made him happy with horse-meat, and then turned and walked back again through the market, Dick looking rather thoughtful, as it seemed to me.
I noticed that people couldn't help looking at me rather hard, and considering my clothes and theirs, I didn't wonder; but whenever they caught my eye they made me a very friendly sign of greeting.
We walked straight into the forecourt of the Museum, where, except that the railings were gone, and the whispering boughs of the trees were all about, nothing seemed changed; the very pigeons were wheeling about the building and clinging to the ornaments of the pediment as I had seen them of old.
Dick seemed grown a little absent, but he could not forbear giving me an architectural note, and said: "It is rather an ugly old building, isn't it?
Many people have wanted to pull it down and rebuild it: and perhaps if work does really get scarce we may yet do so.

But, as my great grandfather will tell you, it would not be quite a straightforward job; for there are wonderful collections in there of all kinds of antiquities, besides an enormous library with many exceedingly beautiful books in it, and many most useful ones as genuine records, texts of ancient works and the like; and the worry and anxiety, and even risk, there would be in moving all this has saved the buildings themselves.

Besides, as we said before, it is not a bad thing to have some record of what our forefathers thought a handsome building.
For there is plenty of labour and material in it." "I see there is," said I, "and I quite agree with you.

But now hadn't we better make haste to see your great-grandfather ?" In fact, I could not help seeing that he was rather dallying with the time.

He said, "Yes, we will go into the house in a minute.