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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: 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. I knew she considered me
too backward, and rather desired to rise in her opinion on that head.
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