"I guessed from your dress and manner, Sir, that you must have been long absent from your own country," said Kneebone; "and now I'm convinced of it, or you wouldn't have asked that question. Both had very singular faces; very odd wigs, very much pulled over their brows; and very large cravats, very much raised above their chins. ’ ‘But you must,’ Gerald said, quite as if he meant it.