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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 he thought interesting, obeyed however the summons, first throwing the handkerchief round his neck by way of precaution against the cold air. The sound of