1 Edna's father was in the city, and had been with them several days.
2 Both children wanted to follow their father when they saw him starting out.
3 Edna had staked her father on his last venture, with the most gratifying results to both of them.
4 She had not much of anything to say to her father, for that matter; but he did not antagonize her.
5 The old gentleman, her father, I have heard, used to atone for his weekday sins with his Sunday devotions.
6 A pretty dispute followed, in which Edna warmly espoused her father's cause and the Doctor remained neutral.
7 I worked a big deal in futures for their father this morning; nice girls; it's time they were getting married.
8 Edna was not so consciously gratified at her husband's leaving home as she had been over the departure of her father.
9 Edna and her father looked very distinguished together, and excited a good deal of notice during their perambulations.
10 Edna and her father had a warm, and almost violent dispute upon the subject of her refusal to attend her sister's wedding.
11 She wished them to taste something of the life their father had lived and known and loved when he, too, was a little child.
12 Mrs. Pontellier talked about her father's Mississippi plantation and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky bluegrass country.
13 Robert was interested, and wanted to know what manner of girls the sisters were, what the father was like, and how long the mother had been dead.
14 His father had been in the business before him, and Monsieur Ratignolle stood well in the community and bore an enviable reputation for integrity and clearheadedness.
15 She and her father had been to the race course, and their thoughts when they seated themselves at table were still occupied with the events of the afternoon, and their talk was still of the track.
16 Edna was glad to be rid of her father when he finally took himself off with his wedding garments and his bridal gifts, with his padded shoulders, his Bible reading, his "toddies" and ponderous oaths.
17 Add to this the violent opposition of her father and her sister Margaret to her marriage with a Catholic, and we need seek no further for the motives which led her to accept Monsieur Pontellier for her husband.
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