CHAPTER I. Of the Hero's Birth and Parentage.--Nothing can differ more from the End of Things than their Beginning
CHAPTER II. A Family Consultation.--A Priest, and an Era in Life
CHAPTER III. A Change in Conduct and in Character: our evil Passions will some- times produce good Effects; and on the contrary, an Alteration for the better in Manners will, not unfrequently, have amongst its Causes a little Corruption of Mind; for the Feelings are so blended that, in suppressing those disagreeable to others, we often suppress those which are amiable in themselves
CHAPTER IV. A Contest of Art and a League of Friendship.--Two Characters in mutual Ignorance of each other, and the Reader no wiser than either of them
CHAPTER V. Rural Hospitality.--An extraordinary Guest.--A Fine Gentleman is not necessarily a Fool
CHAPTER VI. A Dialogue, which might be dull if it were longer
CHAPTER VII. A Change of Prospects.--A new Insight into the Character of the Hero. --A Conference between two Brothers
CHAPTER VIII. First Love
CHAPTER IX. A Discovery and a Departure
CHAPTER X. A very short Chapter,--containing a Valet
CHAPTER XI. The Hero acquits himself honourably as a Coxcomb.--A Fine Lady of the Eighteenth Century, and a fashionable Dialogue; the Substance of fashionable Dialogue being in all Centuries the same
CHAPTER XII. The Abbe's Return.--A Sword, and a Soliloquy
CHAPTER XIII. A mysterious Letter.-A Duel.--The Departure of one of the Family
CHAPTER XIV. Being a Chapter of Trifles
CHAPTER XV. The Mother and Son.--Virtue should be the Sovereign of the Feelings, not their Destroyer