When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire

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Henty George Alfred. When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire

CHAPTER I. FATHERLESS

CHAPTER II. A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER

CHAPTER III. A THIEF SOMEWHERE

CHAPTER IV. CAPTURED

CHAPTER V. KIDNAPPED

CHAPTER VI. A NARROW ESCAPE

CHAPTER VII. SAVED FROM A VILLAIN

CHAPTER VIII. THE CAPTAIN'S YARN

CHAPTER IX. THE FIRE IN THE SAVOY

CHAPTER X. HOW JOHN WILKES FOUGHT THE DUTCH

CHAPTER XI. PRINCE RUPERT

CHAPTER XII. NEW FRIENDS

CHAPTER XIII. THE BATTLE OF LOWESTOFT

CHAPTER XIV. HONOURABLE SCARS

CHAPTER XV. THE PLAGUE

CHAPTER XVI. FATHER AND SON

CHAPTER XVII. SMITTEN DOWN

CHAPTER XVIII. A STROKE OF GOOD FORTUNE

CHAPTER XIX. TAKING POSSESSION

CHAPTER XX. THE FIGHT OFF DUNKIRK

CHAPTER XXI. LONDON IN FLAMES

CHAPTER XXII. AFTER THE FIRE

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"I am glad to see you again, lad," Captain David said, when Cyril entered his shop. "I have been thinking of the news you gave me last week, and the mistress and I have been talking it over. Where are you lodging?"

"I have been lodging until now in Holborn," Cyril replied; "but I am going to move."

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"He is off to smoke his pipe," the Captain said. "I never light mine till he goes. I can't persuade him to take his with me; he insists it would not be manners to smoke in the cabin."

"He is quite right, father," Nellie said. "It is bad enough having you smoke here. When mother's friends or mine come in they are well-nigh choked; they are not accustomed to it as we are, for a respectable London citizen does not think of taking tobacco."

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