| 1. | Captain Roquefinette | [240] |
| 2. | The Meeting | [243] |
| 3. | The Chevalier | [247] |
| 4. | A Bal-Masque of the Period.--The Bat | [251] |
| 5. | The Arsenal | [257] |
| 6. | The Prince de Cellamare | [261] |
| 7. | Alberoni | [264] |
| 8. | The Garret | [269] |
| 9. | A Citizen of the Rue du Temps-Perdu | [272] |
| 10. | The Agreement | [276] |
| 11. | Pros and Cons | [279] |
| 12. | The Denis Family | [285] |
| 13. | The Crimson Ribbon | [290] |
| 14. | The Rue des bons Enfants | [295] |
| 15. | Jean Buvat | [301] |
| 16. | Bathilde | [310] |
| 17. | First Love | [319] |
| 18. | The Consul Duilius | [325] |
| 19. | The Abbe Dubois | [331] |
| 20. | The Conspiracy | [335] |
| 21. | The Order of the Honey Bee | [338] |
| 22. | The Queen of the Greenlanders | [340] |
| 23. | The Duc de Richelieu | [344] |
| 24. | Jealousy | [348] |
| 25. | A Pretext | [352] |
| 26. | Counterplots | [355] |
| 27. | The Seventh Heaven | [360] |
| 28. | Fenelon's Successor | [363] |
| 29. | The Prince de Listhnay's Accomplice | [368] |
| 30. | The Fox and Goose | [372] |
| 31. | A Chapter of Saint-Simon | [376] |
| 32. | A Snare | [378] |
| 33. | The Beginning of the End | [382] |
| 34. | Parliamentary Justice | [387] |
| 35. | Man Proposes | [391] |
| 36. | David and Goliath | [395] |
| 37. | The Savior of France | [400] |
| 38. | God Disposes | [408] |
| 39. | A Prime Minister's Memory | [412] |
| 40. | Boniface | [416] |
| 41. | The Three Visits | [420] |
| 42. | The Closet | [424] |
| 43. | The Marriage in Extremis | [427] |
| Postscriptum | [429] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
[7.]—He attacked the captain with such fury that their swords engaged at the hilt.
[8.]—D'Harmental.
[9.]—He then returned to his work with all the eagerness of an artist.
[10.]—The chevalier set Mirza to eat sugar.
[11.]—Buvat found himself in a sort of laboratory, situated on the ground-floor.
[12.]—The body of the captain lay stretched on the floor, swimming in a sea of blood.