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 CHAPTER I

was early in the morning of the th of June, in the year. The sun rose in unrivalled splendour over the immense city of London, the superb capital, not only of England, but of the world, the Solar System, and the stars. It tipped the vast palaces with its golden rays; it flashed its light upon towers, domes, and cupolas; it drove away the sparkling dew and curling vapour from the masses of superb foliage and gorgeous flowering plants that rolled like oceans of precious stones around the towering buildings of the great city. Millions of human beings awoke to a new day of pleasure or labour, 1