CHAPTER XVI Wherein Mira the seeress, Z�phyrine, and the fatal Am�d�e are successively brought upon the scene, and wherein the notion of Euripides that those whom Zeus wishes to crush he first makes mad, is illustrated by the terrible example of Monsieur Sariette CHAPTER XVII Wherein we learn that Sophar, no less eager for gold than mammon, looked upon his heavenly home less favourably than upon France, a country blessed with a savings bank and loan departments, and wherein we see, yet once again, that whoso is possessed of this world's goods fears the evil effects of any change CHAPTER XVIII Wherein is begun the gardener's story, in the course of which we shall see the destiny of the world unfolded in a discourse as broad and magnificent in its views as Bossuet's discourse on the history of the universe is narrow and dismal CHAPTER XIX The gardener's story, continued CHAPTER XX The gardener's story, continued CHAPTER XXI The gardener's story, concluded CHAPTER XXII Wherein we are shown the interior of a bric-a-brac shop, and see how P�re Guinardon's guilty happiness is marred by the jealousy of a love-lorn dame CHAPTER XXIII Wherein we are permitted to observe the admirable character of Bouchotte, who resists violence but yields to love. After that let no one call the author a misogynist CHAPTER XXIV Containing an account of the vicissitudes that befel the "Lucretius" of the Prior de Vend�me CHAPTER XXV Wherein Maurice finds his angel again CHAPTER XXVI The Conclave CHAPTER XXVII Wherein we shall see revealed a dark and secret mystery and learn how it comes about that empires are often hurled against empires, and ruin falls alike upon the victors and the vanquished; and the wise reader (if such there be-which I doubt) will meditate upon this important utterance: "a war is a matter of business" CHAPTER XXVIII Which treats of a painful domestic scene CHAPTER XXIX Wherein we see how the angel, having become a man, behaves like a man, coveting another's wife and betraying his friend. in this chapter the correctness of young d'Esparvieu's conduct will be made manifest CHAPTER XXX Which treats of an affair of honour, and which will afford the reader an opportunity of judging whether, as arcade affirms, the experience of our faults makes better men and women of us CHAPTER XXXI Wherein we are led to marvel at the readiness with which an honest man of timid and gentle nature can commit a horrible crime CHAPTER XXXII Which describes how Nectaire's flute was heard in the tavern of Clodomir CHAPTER XXXIII How a dreadful crime plunges Paris into a state of terror CHAPTER XXXIV Which contains an account of the arrest of Bouchotte and Maurice, of the disaster which befell the d'Esparvieu library, and of the departure of the angels CHAPTER XXXV And last, wherein the sublime dream of Satan is unfolded THE WHITE STONE By Anatole France A Translation By Charles E. Roche