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1 Grandfather answered her knock.

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2 Grandfather was pleased with Antonia.

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3 Grandfather seemed to like his frankness.

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4 Grandfather's prayers were often very interesting.

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5 Grandfather smoothed his beard and looked judicial.

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6 Grandfather heard our story with a twinkle in his eye.

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7 Grandfather tucked his bushy white beard inside his overcoat.

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8 Grandfather came down, wearing a white shirt and his Sunday coat.

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9 Grandfather put on silver-rimmed spectacles and read several Psalms.

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10 Grandfather smiled to himself while he tied his horse, and we followed her.

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11 Grandfather and Jelinek came to tell Mrs. Shimerda that it was time to start.

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12 Grandfather was never a party to what Jake called our feud with the Shimerdas.

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13 Grandfather came from the barn on one of our big black horses, and Jake lifted grandmother up behind him.

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14 Grandfather's eyes were not at all like those of an old man; they were bright blue, and had a fresh, frosty sparkle.

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15 Grandfather merely put his finger-tips to his brow and bowed his venerable head, thus Protestantizing the atmosphere.

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16 Grandfather asked Jelinek whether in the old country there was some superstition to the effect that a suicide must be buried at the cross-roads.

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17 Grandfather had explained to Ambrosch that some day, when the country was put under fence and the roads were confined to section lines, two roads would cross exactly on that corner.

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