Chapter
1 I | point--the older he grew,~the better he loved to drink. The master-passion
2 I | was his duty to get the better of him. The transformation
3 I | and veiled by hypocrisy~in better educated people, was swift
4 I | had tried to sell them a better class of almanac than the~
5 I | original~Double Liegeois sold better than the most sumptuous
6 I | apprentice should do still~better. Besides, had not David
7 I | the manuscript. "You had better see the Messieurs~Cointet
8 II | widened yet further. The~better families, all devoted as
9 II | L'Houmeau" became little better than a pariah. Hence the
10 II | an audience of one, it is~better to keep them to ourselves.
11 III | opinion that~her secretary was better placed with her than anywhere
12 III | sent those who knew no better into~ecstasies over the
13 III | that Lucien might meet with better treatment than he had~done,"
14 III | her for want~of anything better to do, and now he was desperately
15 IV | business, if you like it better, but I am a craftsman who~
16 IV | suggestion was something better than praise; it was the
17 IV | a child who asks nothing better than to be told what to
18 IV | fortune to bear upon him, the better to humiliate him in~his
19 V | Alexandre, "but I like whist better~myself."~ ~After this dictum,
20 V | archangel, as if she were better than the rest of us, and
21 V | support Lucien will~give me a better will to work than I ever
22 VI | paper. Their paper is far~better than ours, because the raw
23 VI | because the raw material is better; and a good deal~was said
24 VI | Courtois, but you are the better man of the two. I would~
25 VI | me also.~Nothing suits me better than listening to reading
26 VI | the jealous Amelie, the better~to lull suspicion in Lucien
27 VII | told Lucien.~ ~"So much the better!" exclaimed the poet, and
28 VIII| wishes, I think; she knows better than we do how I~should
29 VIII| And shall I ever find a better~opportunity than this? Does
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