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Both expressed their thanks in suitable terms . `` When do you sail ? '' the merchant asked Edgar . `` To-morrow morning , '' he replied , `` and the ship will unmoor at noon . We will come to say farewell to you in the morning . '' Mynheer Van Voorden and his family were no less delighted than Sir Robert Gaiton at the honour that had befallen them . `` Methinks , Mynheer , '' Edgar said , `` that 't is to you that we in part owe the honour the king has bestowed on us , for he said that as you had a mission from him it would be well that we should have the rank of knighthood . ''