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it took them eighteen days to reach the river, and with each tramp of the oxen's hooves, Minna Nel res, always urged on by their predikant, who cited various parables relevant to their condition. They would do it at twelve thirty-five, an odd and arbitrary hour, and as it approached, the ninety whispered among them This would be the final army, led by an old man approach- ing seventy.

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