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`` I know you have , '' said I , `` and I know how much I am beholden to you already , and that I am bidden to obey your orders . But you must confess you are something too merry a lass at times to lippen -LCB- 23 -RCB- to entirely . '' `` I will tell you , then , '' said she . `` Be you on board by nine o'clock forenoon ; the ship does not sail before one ; keep your boat alongside ; and if you are not pleased with my farewells when I shall send them , you can come ashore again and seek Katrine for yourself . '' Since I could make no more of her , I was fain to be content with this . The day came round at last when she and I were to separate . We had been extremely intimate and familiar ; I was much in her debt ; and what way we were to part was a thing that put me from my sleep , like the vails I was to give to the domestic servants .