- 1 I. Memories of the Old Patrician Town
- 2 II. Boyhood Pursuits and Quiet Companions
- 3 III. Growing Up in the Family Home
- 4 IV. Overhearing the Parents' Secret Plan
- 5 V. Boredom at the Timber Merchant Desk
- 6 VI. The Father's Growing Shadow
- 7 VII. Three Dreamlike Years Among the Monks
- 8 VIII. Settling Down in the Handsome City
- 9 IX. Youthful Hope in the Face of Fate
- 10 X. Reflections at the Midnight Desk
- 11 XI. A Miraculous Autumn Day
- 12 XII. Meeting the Young Lady at the Opera
- 13 XIII. Reluctantly Writing Down the Painful Truth
- 14 XIV. The Collapse of My Last Happiness