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said the Colonel . `` Not a bit , sir , '' answered Julia ; `` your friend , Mr. Pleydell , threatens to become a pupil of Mr. Sampson 's to-morrow , so we must make the most of our conquest to-night . '' This led to another musical trial of skill , and that to lively conversation . At length , when the solitary sound of one o'clock had long since resounded on the ebon ear of night , and the next signal of the advance of time was close approaching , Mannering , whose impatience had long subsided into disappointment and despair , looked at his watch , and said , `` We must now give them up '' -- when at that instant -- But what then befell will require a separate chapter . 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 !