"I would prefer not to"

All of the sentences containing the text "I would prefer not to" in Bartleby, the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street, by Herman Melville, in chronological order.

But in quite as clear a one came the previous reply, "I would prefer not to." "I would prefer not to," said he. "I would prefer not to," he said, and gently disappeared behind the screen. "I would prefer not to." "I would prefer not to." "I would prefer not to." "I would prefer not to." "I would prefer not to." "At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable," was his mildly cadaverous reply. "No; I would prefer not to make any change." "I would prefer not to take a clerkship," he rejoined, as if to settle that little item at once. "No: at present I would prefer not to make any change at all."