London on Fire London on Fire Found Found Home at Last Home at Last ILLUSTRATIONS ILLUSTRATIONS "They took refuge with Nurse Patience" (missing from book) Frontis. (missing from book) "The commander of the company handed him a sheet of parchment" "He drew out the packets" "I will give you your answer to-night," she said CHAPTER I CHAPTER I "The king has come in to his own again" "The king has come in to his own again" In a large, sombre apartment, in the palace of the Louvre, there was unusual commotion. The Queen Dowager, Henrietta Maria, was seated in a crimson gilt fauteuil, wearing her widow's black robes, for she had never cast off the mourning she had donned for her murdered husband, Charles I; and indeed she had unwillingly suffered any of her attendants to array themselves in brighter colours. In a large, sombre apartment, in the palace of the Louvre, there was unusual
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