Chap.

 1        1|   for any length of time; he preferred to let the public enjoy
 2        1|      for the men: the latter preferred being deceived and happy.
 3        5|    in every light, found she preferred not to see La Faloise, who
 4        6|    the house by herself. She preferred doing that, she said. And
 5        6| thought that she should have preferred a mere child to him! Steiner
 6        8|   their clutches. And so she preferred giving up everything. Besides,
 7        8|    they did not say so, they preferred the days when threshings
 8        9|  part worthy of Rose, and he preferred to reserve her for an operetta,
 9       10|   settled, for he would have preferred death to a rupture of their
10       13|    down to her carriage. She preferred killing him rather than
11       13|    by ennui and shame, still preferred to live in the Avenue de