Chapter

 1 1|           to~be resolved lay in a better use of the same forces.
 2 1|       three ministries will agree better than seven; and, in the~
 3 1|         taxes, but to assess them better; if lightened, you increase
 4 1|         the more it pours out the~better for the prosperity of the
 5 1|     including the rich) is it not better to make them pay~a duty
 6 1|         for Rabourdin. What could better conduce to the stability~
 7 2|         he could think of nothing~better than some immense service
 8 2|          dinners, above all,~are--better than mine."~ ~Des Lupeaulx
 9 3|        Saillards did not know how better to manage their savings
10 3|         Monsieur des Lupeaulx far~better than the minister understood
11 3|         that life might have gone~better with her, she only imagined
12 3|       imagined the possibility of better things~without expecting
13 3|      woman!) "Oh, yes! I know you better than you~know yourself.
14 4|           In France ministers are better off than kings or women;~
15 4|         individually. They~had no better way of amusing their idle
16 4|    constantly wheedling so as the better to torment him on his weakest~
17 4|           he aspired to something better, but the fatal demon hiding
18 4|           of placing his Zelie in better circumstances, and his mind~
19 4|            had failed to~obtain a better place for her husband. Flavie
20 5|           spirit of official life better than any one, he well knew
21 5|          foot in one, but you had better make him out a~'pious vassal.'
22 5|           public service could be better managed. At such~periods
23 5|           sagacity, Rabourdin was better versed in~matters of administration
24 6|           can do such things much~better when eating."~ ~Du Bruel. "
25 6|           stomach than the heart. Better leave that out. What~are
26 6|        Billardiere--'"~ ~Bixiou. "Better say Monsieur le Baron de
27 6|        resumed Saillard. "Is that better, wife?"~ ~"Yes, my duck."~ ~"'
28 6|            After all, so much the better. Du Bruel, just keep~your
29 7|        nice of me?~What do I want better than to be the wife of Mohammed?"~ ~
30 7|       conversation, that they had better~admit Madame Rabourdin to
31 7|         said, "and I like you the better for it.~Between ourselves,
32 7|          can get out of~him it is better to take a sexagenarian Excellency
33 8|         that most persons will be~better satisfied if you appoint
34 8| equivalent. Your position will be better than ever if you are~forced
35 8|           himself at~last. "I had better write my resignation now."~ ~
36 8|           I myself, I couldn't be better~pleased."~ ~Bixiou. "His
37 8|       have very little to do, had better offer a prize for the~ablest
38 8|          thousand francs would do better and quicker~work than a