What will your mother say, if we but go on gaming and roistering, with dangers of some sudden quarrel--as this which has already sprung up--with no given aim in life, with nothing certain for an ambition--" "Now, Will," began his brother, yet with no petulance in his tone, "pray go not too hard with me at the start.

I thought I had done fairly well, to sit at the table of the council of coinage on my first day in London.
'Tis not every young man gets so far as that.

Come, now, Will!" "But after all, there must be serious purpose." "Know then," cried the elder man, suddenly, "that I have found such serious purpose!" The speaker stood looking out of the window, his eye fixed out across the roofs of London.

There had now fallen from his face all trace of levity, and into his eye and mouth there came reflex of the decision of his speech.

Will stirred in his chair, and at length the two faced each other.
"And pray, what is this sudden resolution, Jack ?" said Will Law.
"If I must tell you, it is simply this: I am resolved to marry the girl we met at Sadler's Wells." "How--what-- ?" "Yes, how--what-- ?" repeated his brother, mockingly.
"But I would ask, which ?" "There was but one," said John Law.