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1  Be sure you draw father's attention to me.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
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2  He has not a word of grief for his poor father.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
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3  I went into the army instead of into my father's business.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
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4  I must tell you that my father holds the highest command of any Bulgarian in our army.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
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5  My father is a very hospitable man: he keeps six hotels; but I couldn't trust him as far as that.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
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6  His father was a hotel and livery stable keeper; and he owed his first step to his knowledge of horse-dealing.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
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7  Look at my father: he never had a bath in his life; and he lived to be ninety-eight, the healthiest man in Bulgaria.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
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8  And if instead of threatening me with your pistol as you did, you had simply thrown yourself as a fugitive on our hospitality, you would have been as safe as in your father's house.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT I