'Fie, fie, Miss Betty! what heresy is here! Westminster Abbey! why, it is the one last desire of ambition.'
'I am beginning to think ambition is rather an empty thing, sir.'
'See, here is Butler. Don't you read Hudibras?'
'No, sir.'
'You should. It's very clever. Then here is Spenser, next to him. You are devoted to The Faerie Queene, of course!'
'I never read it.'
'You might do worse,' remarked Pitt, who was just before them with his mother.
'Does anybody read Spenser now?'
'It is a poor sign for the world if they do not.'
'One cannot read everything,' said Betty. 'I read Shakspeare; I am glad to see his monument.'