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
內容試閱：
CHAPTER 1
A Small Town
Put thousands together
Less bad，
But the cage less gay.
HOBBES
The small town of Verrieres may be regarded as one of the most attractive in the Franche-Comte. Its white houses with their high pitched roofs of red tiles are spread over the slope of a hill， the slightest contours of which are indicated by clumps of sturdy chestnuts. The Doubs runs some hundreds of feet below its fortifications， built in times past by the Spaniards， and now in ruins. Verrieres is sheltered on the north by a high mountain， a spur of the Jura. The jagged peaks of the Verra put on a mantle of snow in the first cold days of October. A torrent which comes tearing down from the mountain passes through Verrieres before emptying its waters into the Doubs， and supplies power to a great number of sawmills; this is an extremely simple industry， and procures a certain degree of comfort for the majority of the inhabitants， who are of the peasant rather than of the burgess class. It is not， however， the sawmills that have made this little town rich. It is to the manufacture of printed calicoes， known as Mulhouse stuffs， that it owes the general prosperity which， since the fall of Napoleon， has led to the refacing of almost all the houses in Verrieres.
No sooner has one entered the town than one is startled by the din of a noisy machine of terrifying aspect. A score of weighty hammers， falling with a clang which makes the pavement tremble， are raised aloft by a wheel which the water of the torrent sets in motion. Each of these hammers turns out， daily， I cannot say how many thousands of nails. A bevy of fresh， pretty girls subject to the blows of these enormous hammers， the little scraps of iron which are rapidly transformed into nails. This work， so rough to the outward eye， is one of the industries that most astonish the traveller who ventures for the first time among the mountains that divide France from Switzerland. If， on entering Verrieres， the traveller inquires to whom belongs that fine nail factory which deafens everybody who passes up the main street， he will be told in a drawling accent: ‘Eh! It belongs to the Mayor.’
Provided the traveller halts for a few moments in this main street of Verrieres， which runs from the bank of the Doubs nearly to the summit of the hill， it is a hundred to one that he will see a tall man appear， with a busy， important air.
At the sight of him every hat is quickly raised. His hair is turning grey， and he is dressed in grey. He is a Companion of several Orders， has a high forehead， an aquiline nose， and on the whole his face is not wanting in a certain regularity: indeed， the first impression formed
of it may be that it combines with the dignity of a village mayor that sort of charm which may still be found in a man of forty-eight or fifty. But soon the visitor from Paris is annoyed by a certain air of self-satisfaction and self-sufficiency mingled with a suggestion of limitations and want of originality. One feels， finally， that this man’s talent is confined to securing the exact payment of whatever is owed to him and to postponing payment till the last possible moment when he is the debtor.
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