Book IV.

  CHAPTER I. A Re-entrance into Life through the Ebon Gate, Affliction

  CHAPTER II. Ambitious Projects

  CHAPTER III.

  The real Actors Spectators to the false ones

  CHAPTER IV. Paris.--A Female Politician, and an Ecclesiastical One.--Sundry other Matters

  CHAPTER V. A Meeting of Wits.--Conversation gone out to Supper in her Dress of Velvet and Jewels

  CHAPTER VI. A Court, Courtiers, and a King

  CHAPTER VII. Reflections.--A Soiree.--The Appearance of one important in the History.--A Conversation with Madame de Balzac highly satisfactory and cheering.--A Rencontre with a curious old Soldier.-- The Extinction of a once great Luminary

  CHAPTER VIII. In which there is Reason to fear that Princes are not invariably free from Human Peccadilloes

  CHAPTER IX. A Prince, an Audience, and a Secret Embassy

  CHAPTER X. Royal Exertions for the Good of the People

  CHAPTER XI. An Interview