Chapter

 1 II   |     people in Paris who have seen better days. No matter! He gave
 2 II   |        that my youthful theory is better than all your experience.”~
 3 VI   |       think that?”~“Oh, I know it better than I can explain it. I
 4 VI   |           One could not have done better nor acted more promptly.
 5 VII  |      offender could not have done better.~Big drops of perspiration
 6 VII  |           if you can. But you had better give me back what they took
 7 VIII |           not protest, for it was better to be badly served than
 8 X    |         resignation.~“Do you feel better?” asked M. Segmuller.~“I
 9 X    |       buried you alive; and it is better to die—to die quickly, if
10 X    |          won’t be easy to get the better of him.”~Then, after a moment’
11 XIV  |       young detective met with no better success than at the Prefecture.
12 XVI  |     Segmuller thought that he had better begin by consulting the
13 XVI  |        the prisoner might get the better of the fight.~From half-past
14 XVI  |         widow Chupin’s son. I had better do so now. Go and tell them
15 XVII |         deceiving me. But she had better take care! There are means
16 XVII |  detective could not have found a better person to question, for
17 XVIII|          have become altogether a better fellow; more frank, communicative,
18 XVIII|         You couldn’t have found a better comparison, General,” said
19 XVIII| discussion continued. It would be better to remain silent, and to
20 XIX  |           matter of make-up is no better than an ordinary policeman.
21 XIX  |         managed the investigation better himself. We would have done
22 XIX  |       himself. We would have done better with it if we could. I would
23 XX   |           of a working man of the better class taking a holiday.~
24 XXI  |     afraid to risk his life is no better than a low spy. Why! you
25 XXI  |           at Poissy was ten times better than that at Fontevrault.~
26 XXII |  understand Lecoq’s agitation any better than Father Absinthe’s discomfited
27 XXII |          did as much work—and far better work than any two inspectors
28 XXIII|           the affair? So much the better. Tell me all about it, and
29 XXIII|         could have been done much better, very much better. You have
30 XXIII|       done much better, very much better. You have a talent for your
31 XXIV |         if you could find nothing better,” interrupted Tabaret, “
32 XXIV |   wonderful work of induction far better than his companion.~For