Book One
Chapter One A Small Town
Chapter Two A Mayor
Chapter Three Care of the Poor
Chapter Four Father and Son
Chapter Five Striking a Bargain
Chapter Six Boredom
Chapter Seven Choices
Chapter Eight Events
Chapter Nine An Evening in the Country
Chapter Ten A Good Heart and a Small Fortune
Chapter Eleven In the Evening
Chapter Twelve A Journey
Chapter Thirteen New Shoes
Chapter Fourteen A Pair of English Scissors
Chapter Fifteen The Call of the Cock
Chapter Sixteen The Day After
Chapter Seventeen First Assistant
Chapter Eighteen A King in Verrieres
Chapter Nineteen Thinking Brings Suffering
Chapter Twenty Anonymous Letters
Chapter Twenty-One Discussion with a Master
Chapter Twenty-Two Behavior in 1830
Chapter Twenty-Three The Problems of a Politician
Chapter Twenty-Four A Capital City
Chapter Twenty-Five The School
Chapter Twenty-Six The World, or What the Rich Man Lacks
Chapter Twenty-Seven First Experience of Life
Chapter Twenty-Eight A Procession
Chapter Twenty-Nine First Promotion
Chapter Thirty A Man of Ambition
Book Two
Chapter One Pleasures of the Countryside
Chapter Two Entry into Society
Chapter Three The First Steps
Chapter Four The Hotel de La Mole
Chapter Five Sensitivity
Chapter Six What Decoration for a Man?
Chapter Seven The Dance
Chapter Eight Queen Marguerite
Chapter Nine The Power of a Young Lady
Chapter Ten Might He Be a Danton?
Chapter Eleven A Plot
Chapter Twelve A Young Lady's Thoughts
Chapter Thirteen Is It a Plot?
Chapter Fourteen One O'clock in the Morning
Chapter Fifteen An Old Sword
Chapter Sixteen Cruel Moments
Chapter Seventeen The Italian Opera
Chapter Eighteen The Secret Letter
Chapter Nineteen The Discussion
Chapter Twenty The Church, Forests, and Freedom
Chapter Twenty-One Strassburg
Chapter Twenty-Two The Department of Virtue
Chapter Twenty-Three Properly in Love
Chapter Twenty-Four Manon Lescaut
Chapter Twenty-Five Boredom
Chapter Twenty-Six A Box at the Italian Opera
Chapter Twenty-Seven Frightening Her
Chapter Twenty-Eight The Tiger
Chapter Twenty-Nine The Pain of Weakness
Chapter Thirty A Man of Intelligence
Chapter Thirty-One A Storm
Chapter Thirty-Two Sorry Problems
Chapter Thirty-Three A Prison
Chapter Thirty-Four A Powerful Man
Chapter Thirty-Five Peace
Chapter Thirty-Six The Trial
Chapter Thirty-Seven Reluctant to Be Apart
Chapter Thirty-Eight Facing the Death