Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/chaplainofthefle00besa THE CHAPLAIN OF THE FLEET by WALTER BESANT and JAMES RICE Library Edition London Chatto And Windus, Piccadilly 1888 Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson and Co. Edinburgh and London. CONTENTS. Part I. _WITHIN THE RULES._ CHAP. PAGE I. HOW KITTY LOST HER FATHER AND HER FRIENDS. 9 II. HOW KITTY MADE ENGAGEMENTS. 19 III. HOW WE CAME TO LONDON ON THE COACH. 25 IV. HOW KITTY FIRST SAW THE DOCTOR. 41 V. HOW KITTY WITNESSED A FLEET WEDDING. 59 VI. HOW KITTY BEGAN TO ENJOY THE LIBERTIES OF THE FLEET. 76 VII. HOW KITTY LEARNED TO KNOW THE DOCTOR. 88 VIII. HOW KITTY SPENT HER TIME. 93 IX. HOW THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE MADE TWO WOMEN PRISONERS. 105 X. HOW THE DOCTOR WAS AT HOME TO HIS FRIENDS. 110 XI. HOW THE DOCTOR DISMISSED HIS FRIENDS. 126 XII. HOW KITTY EXECUTED THE DOCTOR'S REVENGE. 132 XIII. HOW LORD CHUDLEIGH WOKE OUT OF SLEEP. 145 XIV. HOW MRS. DEBORAH WAS RELEASED. 152 XV. HOW MRS. ESTHER WAS DISCHARGED. 158 Part II. _THE QUEEN OF THE WELLS._ I. HOW WE RETURNED TO THE POLITE WORLD. 177 II. HOW WE WENT TO THE WELLS. 186 III. HOW NANCY RECKONED UP THE COMPANY. 194 IV. HOW KITTY WENT TO HER FIRST BALL. 209 V. HOW KITTY WORE HER CROWN. 225 VI. HOW THE DOCTOR WROTE TO KITTY. 236 VII. HOW KITTY BROKE HER PROMISE. 241 VIII. HOW KITTY HAD LETTERS AND VERSES. 250 IX. HOW LORD CHUDLEIGH WENT TO LONDON. 258 X. HOW TWO OLD FRIENDS CAME TO EPSOM. 265 XI. HOW SIR MILES RENEWED HIS OFFER. 276 XII. HOW HARRY TEMPLE PROVED HIS VALOUR. 283 XIII. HOW DURDANS WAS ILLUMINATED. 291 XIV. HOW MY LORD MADE HIS CONFESSION. 301 XV. HOW NANCY HAD A QUICK TONGUE. 308 XVI. HOW SPED THE MASQUERADE. 313 XVII. HOW KITTY PREVENTED A DUEL. 326 XVIII. HOW HARRY GOT RELEASED. 344 XIX. HOW WILL LEVETT WAS DISAPPOINTED. 360 XX. HOW WILL WOULD NOT BE CROSSED. 379 XXI. HOW KITTY WENT TO LONDON. 417 XXII. HOW LORD CHUDLEIGH RECEIVED HIS FREEDOM. 435 THE CHAPLAIN OF THE FLEET.