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` Of course you suggested that Wednesday . ' -RRB- '' ` This place was quite in the country then , and eight miles from a station , and there was only one train to town , at seven o'clock in the morning . If they could get to the village where the station was at quarter-past six , they would have time to get married before the train came . Old Mr. Lawrence , the Methodist minister , was always up at six o'clock , and he could easily marry them in twenty minutes , and that would give them lots of time to catch the train . I would furnish the conveyance to take them to the village , and would also attend to Rebecca 's baggage . Mr. Bridges could have his trunk taken to the station without exciting suspicion . At five o'clock in the morning , I told Rebecca , I would have a horse and buggy tied to a tree by the roadside at a little distance from the doctor 's house where the lovers were to meet . ''