BOOK ONE
Chapter 1 A Small Town
Chapter 2 A Mayor
Chapter 3 Care of the Poor
Chapter 4 Father and Son
Chapter 5 Striking a Bargain
Chapter 6 Boredom
Chapter 7 Choices
Chapter 8 Events
Chapter 9 An Evening in the Country
Chapter 10 A Good Heart and a Small Fortune
Chapter 11 In the Evening
Chapter 12 A Journey
Chapter 13 New Shoes
Chapter 14 A Pair of English Scissors
Chapter 15 The Call of the Cock
Chapter 16 The Day After
Chapter 17 First Assistant
Chapter 18 A King in Verrieres
Chapter 19 Thinking Brings Suffering
Chapter 20 Anonymous Letters
Chapter 21 Discussion with a Master
Chapter 22 Behavior in 1830
Chapter 23 The Problems of a Politician
Chapter 24 A Capital City
Chapter 25 The School
Chapter 26 The World, or What the Rich Man Lacks
Chapter 27 First Experience of Life
Chapter 28 A Procession
Chapter 29 First Promotion
Chapter 30 A Man of Ambition
BOOK TWO
Chapter 1 Pleasures of the Countryside
Chapter 2 Entry into Society
Chapter 3 The First Steps
Chapter 4 The Hotel de La Mole
Chapter 5 Sensitivity
Chapter 6 What Decoration for a Man?
Chapter 7 The Dance
Chapter 8 Queen Marguerite
Chapter 9 The Power of a Young Lady
Chapter 10 Might He Be a Danton
Chapter 11 A Plot
Chapter 12 A Young Lady's Thoughts
Chapter 13 Is It a Plot?
Chapter 14 One O'clock in the Morning
Chapter 15 An Old Sword
Chapter 16 Cruel Moments
Chapter 17 The Italian Opera
Chapter 18 The Secret Letter
Chapter 19 The Discussion
Chapter 20 The Church, Forests, and Freedom
Chapter 21 Strassburg
Chapter 22 The Department of Virtue
Chapter 23 Properly in Love
Chapter 24 Manon Lescaut
Chapter 25 Boredom
Chapter 26 A Box at the Italian Opera
Chapter 27 Frightening Her
Chapter 28 The Tiger
Chapter 29 The Pain of Weakness
Chapter 30 A Man of Intelligence
Chapter 31 A Storm
Chapter 32 Sorry Problems
Chapter 33 A Prison
Chapter 34 A Powerful Man
Chapter 35 Peace
Chapter 36 The Trial
Chapter 37 Reluctant to Be Apart
Chapter 38 Facing the Death