The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

the bottom. All the others were there with him waiting, and Lucy's conscience smote her
when she saw their anxious faces and realized how long she had forgotten them.
"It's all right," she shouted. "Everything's all right. The Magician's a brick - and I've seen
Him - Aslan."
After that she went from them like the wind and out into the garden. Here the earth was
shaking with the jumps and the air ringing with the shouts of the Monopods. Both were
redoubled when they caught sight of her.
"Here she comes, here she comes," they cried. "Three cheers for the little girl. Ah! She
put it across the old gentleman properly, she did."
"And we're extremely regrettable," said the Chief Monopod, "that we can't give you the
pleasure of seeing us as we were before we were uglified, for you wouldn't believe the
difference, and that's the truth, for there's no denying we're mortal ugly now, so we won't
deceive you."
"Eh, that we are, Chief, that we are," echoed the others, bouncing like so many toy
balloons. "You've said it, you've said it."
"But I don't think you are at all," said Lucy, shouting to make herself heard. "I think you
look very nice."
"Hear her, hear her," said the Monopods. "True for you, Missie. Very nice we look. You
couldn't find a handsomer lot." They said this without any surprise and did not seem to
notice that they had changed their minds.
"She's a-saying," remarked the Chief Monopod, "as how we looked very nice before we
were uglified."
"True for you, Chief, true for you," chanted the others. "That's what she says. We heard
her ourselves."
"I did not," bawled Lucy. "I said you're very nice now."
"So she did, so she did," said the Chief Monopod, "said we were very nice then."
"Hear 'em both, hear 'em both," said the Monopods. "There's a pair for you. Always right.
They couldn't have put it better."
"But we're saying just the opposite," said Lucy, stamping her foot with impatience.
"So you are, to be sure, so you are," said the Monopods. "Nothing like an opposite. Keep
it up, both of you."