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1  They were Eileen's father and mother.
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2  They had a different father and mother.
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3  His mother had a nicer smell than his father.
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4  It was cold and dark under the seawall beside his father's house.
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5  His father had told him, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow.
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6  And his father had given him two five-shilling pieces for pocket money.
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7  They were older than his father and mother but uncle Charles was older than Dante.
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8  There were lanterns in the hall of his father's house and ropes of green branches.
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9  Stephen, seeing and hearing the hotel keeper through his father's face and voice, laughed.
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10  His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.
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11  And his father had told him if he wanted anything to write home to him and, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow.
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12  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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13  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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14  Once he had washed his hands in the lavatory of the Wicklow Hotel and his father pulled the stopper up by the chain after and the dirty water went down through the hole in the basin.
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15  Then at the door of the castle the rector had shaken hands with his father and mother, his soutane fluttering in the breeze, and the car had driven off with his father and mother on it.
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16  He thought of his own father, of how he sang songs while his mother played and of how he always gave him a shilling when he asked for sixpence and he felt sorry for him that he was not a magistrate like the other boys' fathers.
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17  He told Stephen that his name was Athy and that his father kept a lot of racehorses that were spiffing jumpers and that his father would give a good tip to Brother Michael any time he wanted it because Brother Michael was very decent and always told him the news out of the paper they got every day up in the castle.
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