Table of Contents Part One CHAPTER 1 A Small Town .....................................................002 CHAPTER 2 A Mayor ..............................................................007 CHAPTER 3 The Bread of the Poor ....................................... 011 CHAPTER 4 Father and Son....................................................018 CHAPTER 5 Driving a Bargain ...............................................023 CHAPTER 6 Dullness ...............................................................033 CHAPTER 7 Elective Affinities .............................................. 043 CHAPTER 8 Minor Events ......................................................057 CHAPTER 9 An Evening in the Country .............................. 067 CHAPTER 10 A Large Heart and a Small Fortune ............... 078 CHAPTER 11 Night Thoughts ................................................083 CHAPTER 12 A Journey .........................................................089 CHAPTER 13 Open-work Stockings .....................................098 CHAPTER 14 The English Scissors ........................................105 CHAPTER 15 Cock-crow ....................................................... 109 CHAPTER 16 The Day After ................................................... 114 CHAPTER 17 The Principal Deputy ......................................120 CHAPTER 18 A King at Verrieres .......................................... 126 CHAPTER 19 To Think Is To Be Full of Sorrow .................. 143 CHAPTER 20 The Anonymous Letters ................................. 154 CHAPTER 21 Conversation with a Lord and Master............. 159 CHAPTER 22 Manners and Customs in 1830 ......................... 176 CHAPTER 23 The Sorrows of an Official ............................... 192 CHAPTER 24 A Capital ..........................................................210 CHAPTER 25 The Seminary ................................................... 219 CHAPTER 26 The World, or What the Rich Lack ...............228 CHAPTER 27 First Experience of Life ................................... 241 CHAPTER 28 A Procession ................................................... 246 CHAPTER 29 The First Step ................................................... 255 CHAPTER 30 Ambition ...........................................................274
Part Two CHAPTER 1 Country Pleasures ...............................................298 CHAPTER 2 First Appearance in Society ...............................312 CHAPTER 3 First Steps ............................................................ 322 CHAPTER 4 The Hotel de La Mole ....................................... 327 CHAPTER 5 Sensibility and a Pious Lady ............................... 343 CHAPTER 6 Pronunciation .....................................................347 CHAPTER 7 An Attack of Gout ............................................. 356 CHAPTER 8 What Is the Decoration that Confers Distinction? ........................................................366 CHAPTER 9 The Ball ...............................................................379 CHAPTER 10 Queen Marguerite ............................................ 391 CHAPTER 11 The Tyranny of a Girl ...................................... 401 CHAPTER 12 Another Danton ..............................................406 CHAPTER 13 A Plot ................................................................414 CHAPTER 14 A Girl’s Thoughts ............................................ 426 CHAPTER 15 Is it a Plot? ........................................................434 CHAPTER 16 One o‘Clock in the Morning............................441 CHAPTER 17 An Old Sword ................................................... 450 CHAPTER 18 Painful Moments ..............................................456 CHAPTER 19 The Opera-Bouffe ............................................463 CHAPTER 20 The Japanese Vase ...........................................475 CHAPTER 21 The Secret Note ................................................483 CHAPTER 22 The Discussion ................................................490 CHAPTER 23 The Clergy, their Forests, Liberty .................500 CHAPTER 24 Strasbourg .........................................................511 CHAPTER 25 The Office of Virtue ......................................... 519 CHAPTER 26 Moral Love ....................................................... 528 CHAPTER 27 The Best Positions in the Church ....................533 CHAPTER 28 Manon Lescaut ................................................ 538 CHAPTER 29 Boredom ...........................................................544 CHAPTER 30 A Box at the Bouffes .......................................549 CHAPTER 31 Making Her Afraid ............................................555 CHAPTER 32 The Tiger .......................................................... 561 CHAPTER 33 The Torment of the Weak ...............................568 CHAPTER 34 A Man of Spirit ................................................. 575 CHAPTER 35 A Storm ............................................................. 583 CHAPTER 36 Painful Details ................................................. 590 CHAPTER 37 A Dungeon ........................................................599 CHAPTER 38 A Man of Power ............................................... 605 CHAPTER 39 Intrigue .............................................................. 613 CHAPTER 40 Tranquillity ......................................................619 CHAPTER 41 The Trial........................................................... 624 CHAPTER 42 In the Prison ..................................................... 633 CHAPTER 43 Last Adieux ......................................................640 CHAPTER 44 The Shadow of the Guillotine ........................ 647 CHAPTER 45 Exit Julien ..........................................................657