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Walter Besant. The Chaplain of the Fleet
The Chaplain of the Fleet
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Part I. WITHIN THE RULES
CHAPTER I. HOW KITTY LOST HER FATHER AND HER FRIENDS
CHAPTER II. HOW KITTY MADE ENGAGEMENTS
Footnote
CHAPTER III. HOW WE CAME TO LONDON ON THE COACH
CHAPTER IV. HOW KITTY FIRST SAW THE DOCTOR
CHAPTER V. HOW KITTY WITNESSED A FLEET WEDDING
CHAPTER VI. HOW KITTY BEGAN TO ENJOY THE LIBERTIES OF THE FLEET
CHAPTER VII. HOW KITTY LEARNED TO KNOW THE DOCTOR
CHAPTER VIII. HOW KITTY SPENT HER TIME
CHAPTER IX. HOW THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE MADE TWO WOMEN PRISONERS
CHAPTER X. HOW THE DOCTOR WAS AT HOME TO HIS FRIENDS
CHAPTER XI. HOW THE DOCTOR DISMISSED HIS FRIENDS
CHAPTER XII. HOW KITTY EXECUTED THE DOCTOR’S REVENGE
CHAPTER XIII. HOW LORD CHUDLEIGH WOKE OUT OF SLEEP
CHAPTER XIV. HOW MRS. DEBORAH WAS RELEASED
CHAPTER XV. HOW MRS. ESTHER WAS DISCHARGED
Part II. THE QUEEN OF THE WELLS
CHAPTER I. HOW WE RETURNED TO THE POLITE WORLD
CHAPTER II. HOW WE WENT TO THE WELLS
CHAPTER III. HOW NANCY RECKONED UP THE COMPANY
CHAPTER IV. HOW KITTY WENT TO HER FIRST BALL
CHAPTER V. HOW KITTY WORE HER CROWN
CHAPTER VI. HOW THE DOCTOR WROTE TO KITTY
CHAPTER VII. HOW KITTY BROKE HER PROMISE
CHAPTER VIII. HOW KITTY HAD LETTERS AND VERSES
CHAPTER IX. HOW LORD CHUDLEIGH WENT TO LONDON
CHAPTER X. HOW TWO OLD FRIENDS CAME TO EPSOM
CHAPTER XI. HOW SIR MILES RENEWED HIS OFFER
CHAPTER XII. HOW HARRY TEMPLE PROVED HIS VALOUR
CHAPTER XIII. HOW DURDANS WAS ILLUMINATED
CHAPTER XIV. HOW MY LORD MADE HIS CONFESSION
CHAPTER XV. HOW NANCY HAD A QUICK TONGUE
CHAPTER XVI. HOW SPED THE MASQUERADE
CHAPTER XVII. HOW KITTY PREVENTED A DUEL
CHAPTER XVIII. HOW HARRY GOT RELEASED
CHAPTER XIX. HOW WILL LEVETT WAS DISAPPOINTED
CHAPTER XX. HOW WILL WOULD NOT BE CROSSED
CHAPTER XXI. HOW KITTY WENT TO LONDON
CHAPTER THE LAST. HOW LORD CHUDLEIGH RECEIVED HIS FREEDOM
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Walter Besant, James Rice
Published by Good Press, 2021
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An accident happened which served my purpose. There was a certain farmer on Sir Robert’s estate, whose sister had married a London tradesman of respectability and reputed honesty, named Samuel Gambit (he was a builder’s foreman, who afterwards became a master builder, and made great sums of money by taking city contracts. His son, after him, rose to be an alderman in the city of London). Whether the young woman was in ill health, or whether she was prompted by affection, I know not, but she left her husband for a space and journeyed into the country to see her friends and people. Now when I heard, by accident, that she was about to return, my heart fell, because I saw that my time was come, and that a proper person to take charge of me during the journey was found in Mrs. Gambit.
Madam sent for her. She was a strong, well-built woman, of about six or seven and twenty, resolute in her bearing, and sturdy of speech. She was not afraid, she said, of any dangers of the road, holding (but that was through ignorance) highwaymen in contempt; but she could not be answerable, she said, and this seemed reasonable, for the safety of the coach, which might upset and break our necks. As for the rest, she would be proud to take the young lady with her to London, and madam might, if she wished, consider the extra trouble worth something; but that she left to her ladyship.
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