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Morland remonstrated , pleaded the authority of road-books , innkeepers , and milestones ; but his friend disregarded them all ; he had a surer test of distance . `` I know it must be five and twenty , '' said he , `` by the time we have been doing it . It is now half after one ; we drove out of the inn-yard at Tetbury as the town clock struck eleven ; and I defy any man in England to make my horse go less than ten miles an hour in harness ; that makes it exactly twenty-five . '' `` You have lost an hour , '' said Morland ; `` it was only ten o'clock when we came from Tetbury . '' `` Ten o'clock ! It was eleven , upon my soul ! I counted every stroke .