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But even on him Graves is by no means savage: while his treatment of his hero, Geoffrey Wildgoose, a young Oxford man who, living in retirement with his mother in the country, becomes an evangelist, very mainly from want of some more interesting occupation, is altogether good-humoured.
He who was the more powerful was condemned to pay; but at the first repayment he paid wildgoose for goose, little pig for old swine, and for a mark of gold he put down half a mark of gold, the other half-mark of clay and mould, and yet further threatened with rough treatment the man to whom he was paying this debt. What is thy judgment herein, sire?
Instead, the two set off on a twenty-mile wildgoose chase, with worried faces and fast-beating hearts. It did not occur to either of them to stay at home; or to send someone else on the long, frosty drive in search of the missing dog. Lad had watched the preparations for departure with increasing worry. Also, the abnormally sensitive old fellow was wretchedly unhappy.
She had no time to think of that; it was hers now, to use as she thought best. She would go to Mother Bunch first. That worthy was offended with her; but what of that, she must soothe Mother Bunch's temper, make her once more her friend, get her to look out for any tidings of the boys, and then go on her wildgoose chase to Warrington.
His mother in vain besought him to take faithful old John, or at least Peter, whom they had known from boyhood; but Tom would have nobody but young Robin, and declared that he and Robin, mounted upon Wildfire and Wildgoose two of the best and fleetest horses ever reared in the meadows round Gablehurst could distance any highwaymen who might try to stop them, or shoot them down if they could not shake them off.
They had halted in an open place, and were just discussing the matter, when whiz! a bullet grazed the flank of Wildgoose, and the mettlesome creature reared straight into the air, threatening to fall backwards over his rider. "Mark ho!" cried a loud voice, and there was a crackling of the underwood all round. "It is the footpads!" cried Robin.
Reluctantly the girl gave up the idea of being in on the adventure. "But what are your plans now?" she asked. "It seems that you are going on a wildgoose chase, just to go to Green's house, and besides, with all his friends there, you would have no chance of escape if your presence was discovered at the farm." "Well, to tell the truth, all we can do is go there and be guided by circumstances.
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."
Wildgoose promptly falls in love with a fascinating damsel-errant, Julia Townsend; and the various adventures, religious, picaresque, and amatory, are embroiled and disembroiled with very fair skill in character and fairer still in narrative. Both Scott and Dickens evidently knew Graves well, and knowledge of him might with advantage be more general.
Both parties were Roman Catholics, and either twenty-five or twenty-eight of those who took an active part in the burning, were hanged and gibbeted in different parts of the county of Louth. Devann, the ringleader, hung for some months in chains, within about a hundred yards of his own house, and about half a mile from Wildgoose Lodge.
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