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CHAPTER FIVEThe Marquis rose early, had an excellent breakfast and then bade farewell to the publican and his wife. “I have enjoyed being with you and I shall hope to come again,” he stated. “We’ve liked havin’ you ever so much,” the wife said. “As I says to me ’usband, you be a real gentleman, that’s what you be.” The Marquis smiled. “That is a compliment I appreciate.” He tied his bags onto Firefly and then set off from the back of the inn. There were fields that had not been cultivated and Firefly was able to gallop over them and he only calmed down after travelling for quite a long way. Keeping to the fields the Marquis moved steadily North, thinking that it would be interesting to see a part of England he knew little about and few of his friends came from the Northern Counties