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At seven o'clock next morning, after breakfasting off the remains of supper and drinking a stirrup-cup of palm wine, Fritz and his companions left the hermitage at Eberfurt.
They were all in haste, and intended to cover the seven and a half miles that lay between the farm and Falconhurst in less than three hours.