CHAPTER XXI.
JUSTICE This does indeed confirm each circumstance The gipsy told! No orphan, nor without a friend art thou.
I am thy father, HERE'S thy mother, THERE Thy uncle, THIS thy first cousin, and THESE Are all thy near relations! The Critic.
As Mannering replaced his watch, he heard a distant and hollow sound.

'It is a carriage for certain; no, it is but the sound of the wind among the leafless trees.

Do come to the window, Mr.Pleydell.' The Counsellor, who, with his large silk handkerchief in his hand, was expatiating away to Julia upon some subject which he thought was interesting, obeyed the summons, first, however, wrapping the handkerchief round his neck by way of precaution against the cold air.

The sound of wheels became now very perceptible, and Pleydell, as if he had reserved all his curiosity till that moment, ran out to the hall.

The Colonel rung for Barnes to desire that the persons who came in the carriage might be shown into a separate room, being altogether uncertain whom it might contain.