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and think they are doing God service , because you are both Protestants . '' `` I can only repeat , trust to my prudence and management ; I have too much at stake to hazard it lightly . '' `` Then remember , Charles , we sail Wednesday evening : it will be star-light , but not too dark to see your way . I will defer sailing till eleven o'clock , if that will suit your schemes . '' `` It will exactly ; or if you sail the moment I return , so much the better . '' With these words , they separated -- Morton , overjoyed at the completion of his preliminary arrangements , all night , like Peter Pindar 's dog , `` lay winking , And could n't sleep for thinking . '' The appointed day at length arrived ; but the destinies , who had hitherto spun the thread of the two lovers ' fate as smooth and even as a whale-line yarn , now began to fill it full of _ kinks _ .