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1  Uncle Charles and Dante clapped.
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2  Dante, Parnell, Clane, Clongowes.
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3  Dante had two brushes in her press.
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4  Dante stared across the table, her cheeks shaking.
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5  Mrs Dedalus was eating little and Dante sat with her hands in her lap.
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6  Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.
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7  Mother was sitting at the fire with Dante waiting for Brigid to bring in the tea.
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8  They were older than his father and mother but uncle Charles was older than Dante.
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9  And when Dante made that noise after dinner and then put up her hand to her mouth: that was heartburn.
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10  There were two sides in it: Dante was on one side and his father and Mr Casey were on the other side but his mother and uncle Charles were on no side.
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11  Father Arnall knew more than Dante because he was a priest but both his father and uncle Charles said that Dante was a clever woman and a well-read woman.
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12  That was like the two brushes in Dante's press, the brush with the green velvet back for Parnell and the brush with the maroon velvet back for Michael Davitt.
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13  Dante shoved her chair violently aside and left the table, upsetting her napkin-ring which rolled slowly along the carpet and came to rest against the foot of an easy-chair.
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14  And he saw Dante in a maroon velvet dress and with a green velvet mantle hanging from her shoulders walking proudly and silently past the people who knelt by the water's edge.
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15  He wondered which was right, to be for the green or for the maroon, because Dante had ripped the green velvet back off the brush that was for Parnell one day with her scissors and had told him that Parnell was a bad man.
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16  All were waiting: uncle Charles, who sat far away in the shadow of the window, Dante and Mr Casey, who sat in the easy-chairs at either side of the hearth, Stephen, seated on a chair between them, his feet resting on the toasted boss.
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17  He was for Ireland and Parnell and so was his father: and so was Dante too for one night at the band on the esplanade she had hit a gentleman on the head with her umbrella because he had taken off his hat when the band played GOD SAVE THE QUEEN at the end.
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