judicially.

"Yet it seems to purchase well as any," said the other, indifferently.
"At least, such is my hope, for I have made debt against our purse of
some fifty sovereigns--some little apparel which I have ordered. For,
look you, Will, I must be clothed proper. In these days, as I may tell
you, I am to meet such men as Montague, chancellor of the exchequer--my
Lord Keeper Somers--Sir Isaac Newton--Mr. John Locke--gentry of that
sort. It is fitting I should have better garb than this which we have
brought with us."

"You are ever free with some mad jest or other, Jack; but what is this
new madness of which you speak?"

"No madness at all, my dear boy; for in fact I have but come from the
council chamber, where I have met these very gentlemen whom I have
named to you. But pray you note, my dear brother, there are those who
hold John Law, and his studies, not so light as doth his own brother.
For myself, the matter furnishes no surprise at all. As for you, you had
never confidence in me, nor in yourself. Gad! Will, hadst but the
courage of a flea, what days we two might have together here in this old
town!"

"I want none of such days, Jack," said Will Law, soberly. "I care most
to see you settled in some decent way of living. 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