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He has come to to inspect the province. He's quite a bigwig now; and writes to me that, as a relation, he should like to see us again, and invites you and me and Arkady to the town. 'Are you going? asked Pavel Petrovitch. 'No; are you? 'No, I shan't go either. Much object there would be in dragging oneself over forty miles on a wild-goose chase. Mathieu wants to show himself in all his glory.
The old man grumbled a good deal at first, but was finally so far mollified as to say less testily, while he put on his hat, "I warrant me, young man, you are come on some wild-goose chase to this out-o'-the-way region of the land in search of the picturesque eh? a dauber on canvas?"
Frank laid his finger on the spot and exclaimed enthusiastically: "There it is, Harry, and we are not so far from it now. In a few days we shall know whether we are on a wild-goose chase or not." "Why, no doubt has ever entered your head that the ivory is there?" questioned Harry. "Well, old fellow, you know there are others interested in this ivory beside ourselves Muley-Hassan for instance."
My post-town is fifty miles from the place where I pursue my theological studies; you are too wise to attempt a wild-goose chase. You may smack your chaps, Barney, with envy; bite them too if you please, and it will only whet my own sense of pleasure to fancy your confusion, and your hopeless denunciations in the club. I shall be back in time for term meanwhile get the papers in readiness.
"I'd have given fifty cents, right out, to see how old Mudge looked, I calc'late he's pretty well tired with his wild-goose chase by this time." It was now twelve o'clock, and both the travelers began to feel the pangs of hunger. "It's about time to bait, I calc'late," remarked the pedler.
From the beginning he has never concealed his belief that Professor Challenger is an absolute fraud, that we are all embarked upon an absurd wild-goose chase and that we are likely to reap nothing but disappointment and danger in South America, and corresponding ridicule in England.
"You are putting a very foolish construction upon what I have said," Wrayson answered irritably. "I have gone out of my way to help you, but, frankly, I think that yours is a wild-goose chase." Barnes rose to his feet and finished his brandy. "I don't believe it," he declared.
"Nay, Alice, this is certainly a strange coincidence, that you should know even thus much of a foolish secret that makes me employ this little holiday time, which I have stolen out of a weary life, in a wild-goose chase. But, believe me, you allude to matters that are more a mystery to me than my affairs appear to be to you. Will you explain what you would suggest by this badinage?"
"It's nothink more nor a wild-goose chase," she said, resentfully. "A-gettin' us all out'n our beds at this time o' night! It's a sufferin' and dyin' shame, that's wot it is, and if sperrits was like other folks, 't wouldn't 'ave happened." "Sarah," said Mrs. Dodd, firmly, "keep your mouth shut. Israel, will you dig?" "We'll all dig," said Mrs.
Thornton wrote particularly that everything was all right. He was Johnson's assistant, and he ought to know. Besides, he has been with us a long time, and is thoroughly familiar with every part of the work." "Maybe it's a joke," ventured Donald. "It would be a stupid sort of joke to get me from Boston to Idaho on a wild-goose chase. No, there is no joke about this," went on Mr.
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