"You're not obliged to help me, I know." "I am--I am bound to help you; not because I am your tutor or your guardian, but because I love you." "Then help me in this.

My father, I feel sure, was right.

Whether he was or not, and whether I have to do it single-handed or not, I mean to find my brother." "Certainly you may count on me, old fellow," said the tutor; "but be quite sure first that you know what you are undertaking.

If it is not a wild-goose chase it is something uncommonly like it.

You resolve to waste a whole year.