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accompanying this word with an expressive look and her most gracious smile . The enamored Stradling , always impassible , contented himself with replying : ` It is well ! ' The day following , the third , the important day , that which Catherine already regarded as her day of betrothal , early in the morning , she dressed herself in her best attire , not doubting the impatience of the captain . Before noon , the latter entered the inn and went directly up to the landlady . She received him carelessly and coldly ; she was nervous , she had not had time for reflection ; she did not know what the captain wished ; if he would let her alone for the present , by and by she would consider . ` Boy ! a new pipe and some ale ! '