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We shall not be taken or overcome through lack of good beasts to bear us, Tom." "You have Wildgoose, too?" "Yes, I sent after him shortly. He was too grand a beast to be wasted upon a varlet of a serving man. If you have more of the same stock at home, Tom, we might make shift to get at them anon; but for the present we are well enough mounted."
This tale of terror is, unfortunately, too true. The scene of hellish murder detailed in it lies at Wildgoose Lodge, in the county of Louth, within about four miles of Carrickmacross, and nine of Dundalk. No such multitudinous murder has occurred, under similar circumstances, except the burning of the Sheas, in the county of Tipperary. The name of the family burned in Wildgoose Lodge was Lynch.
Jonathan was so well appeased by the intervention of the golden advocates that he promised not only to forgive him, himself, but also to prevail with Mr. Wildgoose to do the same, provided he entered into a bond for the repayment of the ten guineas. This was a condition easily submitted to by Martin in his present circumstances.
If they thought to gain their point by sending him on wildgoose chases like this, they were greatly mistaken. He proposed to have Chiquita now, if he had to burst his way to her through barred doors. Never in all his easy, careless life had anything of moment been denied him, never had he felt such bitterness of thwarted longing.
"Some sharper would soon make away with him; but it will be a clever man who filches him from me! I will guard him as my greatest treasure, and he will be worth more to me than the guineas you carry in your bag." "And his brother is somewhere in the forest," said Tom; and he told the story of Robin and Wildgoose, to which Captain Jack listened with a look of amusement.
In parting with Walter, Courtland shook his head, and observed: "Entre nous, Sir, I fear this may be a wildgoose chase. Your father was too facetious to confine himself to fact excuse me, Sir and perhaps the Colonel and the legacy were merely inventions pour passer le temps there was only one reason indeed, that made me fully believe the story."
Whereupon he took occasion to forge a note from the said Wild to one Wildgoose, servant at an inn, who used to be Jonathan's banker upon emergencies, who, on receipt of the note, paid Bellamy the contents thereof without hesitation. A few days after, Mr. Wild and his correspondent met.
"I have had plenty of this wildgoose chase, which I was so mad as to be led into by the love of wealth. Indeed, I am beginning to believe that if it goes on much longer I shall leave my bones here." "And if such a dreadful thing as that were to happen, what would become of me, alone with Jacob Meyer?" she asked quietly.
And let me tell you that it is not to every one Lord Claud would present his favourite mare, trained like a human creature for her trade." "You know her?" asked Tom eagerly. "Nell Gwynne and I have been acquainted this many a day. There be some of her fierce tricks that have been learned from my hand. I have been teaching the same to Wildfire and Wildgoose.
'I was trying, said the provost, 'to dissuade our young friend from his wildgoose expedition. 'And I, said Fairford, 'am determined to go through with it. Trusting myself to you, Mr. Maxwell, I conceive that I rely, as I before said, on the word of a gentleman. 'I will warrant you, said Maxwell, 'from all serious consequences some inconveniences you must look to suffer.
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