1 He was your father, and a gentleman.
2 I know it pains you to talk about our father.
3 Our fathers used to like that sort of piece, I believe.
4 I am sorry if I have pained you by asking about my father," he said, "but I could not help it.
5 The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
6 "I am told, on excellent authority, that her father keeps an American dry-goods store," said Sir Thomas Burdon, looking supercilious.
7 The son, who had been his father's secretary, had resigned along with his chief, somewhat foolishly as was thought at the time, and on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.
8 His father had been our ambassador at Madrid when Isabella was young and Prim unthought of, but had retired from the diplomatic service in a capricious moment of annoyance on not being offered the Embassy at Paris, a post to which he considered that he was fully entitled by reason of his birth, his indolence, the good English of his dispatches, and his inordinate passion for pleasure.