"It is the same!" said he.
_Note 3. Author's note_.--"There should be a slight wildness in the patient's remark to the surgeon, which he cannot prevent, though he is conscious of it."
"You are probably aware," continued Mountford,--"for I understand you have been some time in this neighborhood,--that there is a pretended claim, a contesting claim, to the present possession of the estate of Braithwaite, and a long dormant title. Possibly--who knows?--you yourself might have a claim to one or the other. Would not that be a singular coincidence? Have you ever had the curiosity to investigate your parentage with a view to this point?"