e. I'd like driving over the world myself. What
next?"

"Joe Benton. Will have a fortune. Interest, wife, house, and estate
better than anybody else."

"I don't believe the best wife _can_ be bought," said Roswell.

"And the best house for you mightn't be the best house for me," said
Judy.

"He didn't mean it for you, Judy," said her cousin Bob.

"Judge'll never get through, if you don't stop these civilities," said
Norton. "I decide for Joe. No, I don't! I decide for Juliet. Nicer to
go contentedly travelling all over, than to take all one's comfort in
one's pride. Juliet has it yet."

"Judy Bartholomew. Will have a queen's power, and the use of it is to
put down religious freedom in her dominions."

"Juliet has it!" shouted Norton. "Better amuse yourself _not_ at other
people's expense, I think, if you can manage it."

"Roswell Holt; all books in all languages, and power to understand
them. Finds the good of his life in reading."

"That sounds sensible," said Norton. "I give it for Roswell over
Juliet."

"But why?" urged Juliet.

"There's something in books, you see."

"I am sure there is a good deal in countries and cities and people."

"True," said Norton.

"How's his business better than mine?"

"I don't know. Seems as if it ought to be."

"He pleases himself one way, and I another."

"And I another," said Esther.

"True. But books are books, as I said before. Now there's nothing in
diamonds."

"There is in travelling," said Juliet again.

"Yes, there is. But the books shew a higher aspiration, Miss
Bracebridge."

"I don't see it," said the young lady pouting.

"Well, when you are Judge, you'll know how easy it is," said Norton.
"After all, it's only a game. Go ahead, David."

"Ben Johnson. Goes supercargo to China. Object, to do nothing and smoke
seventy cigars a day."

"Roswell has it yet," said Norton. "Go ahead."

"Lucy Ellis. Great beauty. Loves to have all men look at her."

"Roswell has it!" cried Norton. "No stop. Go on."

"Matilda Laval. Has a medicine for all ills; and she lives to cure
people."

"Matilda has it," said Norton, in a somewhat lowered tone.

"Bill Langridge. Governor of the State. Object, to have things his own
way."

"Matilda has it!" said the judge judicially.

"Egbert Watson--prefers military to civil rule; therefore chooses to be
head of the army instead of the State. Object, same as Bill
Langridge's."

"Matilda Laval has it," said the Judge.