Part ONE 1
CHAPTER 1 A Small Town 2
CHAPTER 2 A Mayor 7
CHAPTER 3 The Bread of the Poor 11
CHAPTER 4 Father and Son 18
CHAPTER 5 Driving a Bargain 23
CHAPTER 6 Dullness 33
CHAPTER 7 Elective Affinities 43
CHAPTER 8 Minor Events 57
CHAPTER 9 An Evening in the Country 67
CHAPTER 10 A Large Heart and a Small Fortune 78
CHAPTER 11 Night Thoughts 83
CHAPTER 12 A Journey 89
CHAPTER 13 Open-work Stockings 97
CHAPTER 14 The English Scissors 104
CHAPTER 15 Cock-crow 108
CHAPTER 16 The Day After 113
CHAPTER 17 The Principal Deputy 119
CHAPTER 18 A King at Verrieres 125
CHAPTER 19 To Think Is To Be Full of Sorrow 141
CHAPTER 20 The Anonymous Letters 152
CHAPTER 21 Conversation with a Lord and Master 157
CHAPTER 22 Manners and Customs in 1830 174
CHAPTER 23 The Sorrows of an Official 190
CHAPTER 24 A Capital 208
CHAPTER 25 The Seminary 217
CHAPTER 26 The World， or What the Rich Lack 226
CHAPTER 27 First Experience of Life 239
CHAPTER 28 A Procession 244
CHAPTER 29 The First Step 253
CHAPTER 30 Ambition 272
Part TWO 295
CHAPTER 1 Country Pleasures 296
CHAPTER 2 First Appearance in Society 309
CHAPTER 3 First Steps 319
CHAPTER 4 The Hotel de La Mole 324
CHAPTER 5 Sensibility and a Pious Lady 340
CHAPTER 6 Pronunciation 344
CHAPTER 7 An Attack of Gout 353
CHAPTER 8 What Is the Decoration that Confers Distinction？ 363
CHAPTER 9 The Ball 376
CHAPTER 10 Queen Marguerite 388
CHAPTER 11 The Tyranny of a Girl 398
CHAPTER 12 Another Danton 403
CHAPTER 13 A Plot 411
CHAPTER 14 A Girl’s Thoughts 423
CHAPTER 15 Is it a Plot？ 431
CHAPTER 16 One o’Clock in the Morning 438
CHAPTER 17 An Old Sword 447
CHAPTER 18 Painful Moments 453
CHAPTER 19 The Opera-Bouffe 460
CHAPTER 20 The Japanese Vase 472
CHAPTER 21 The Secret Note 480
CHAPTER 22 The Discussion 487
CHAPTER 23 The Clergy， their Forests， Liberty 497
CHAPTER 24 Strasbourg 508
CHAPTER 25 The Office of Virtue 516
CHAPTER 26 Moral Love 525
CHAPTER 27 The Best Positions in the Church 530
CHAPTER 28 Manon Lescaut 535
CHAPTER 29 Boredom 541
CHAPTER 30 A Box at the Bouffes 546
CHAPTER 31 Making Her Afraid 552
CHAPTER 32 The Tiger 558
CHAPTER 33 The Torment of the Weak 565
CHAPTER 34 A Man of Spirit 572
CHAPTER 35 A Storm 580
CHAPTER 36 Painful Details 587
CHAPTER 37 A Dungeon 596
CHAPTER 38 A Man of Power 602
CHAPTER 39 Intrigue 610
CHAPTER 40 Tranquillity 616
CHAPTER 41 The Trial 621
CHAPTER 42 In the Prison 630
CHAPTER 43 Last Adieux 637
CHAPTER 44 The Shadow of the Guillotine 644
CHAPTER 45 Exit Julien 654