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1  His mother put on the oilsheet.
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2  He might die before his mother came.
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3  They were Eileen's father and mother.
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4  They had a different father and mother.
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5  His mother had a nicer smell than his father.
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6  She was a nice mother but she was not so nice when she cried.
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7  He longed to be at home and lay his head on his mother's lap.
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8  His mother had told him not to speak with the rough boys in the college.
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9  They were older than his father and mother but uncle Charles was older than Dante.
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10  He tried to think of Wells's mother but he did not dare to raise his eyes to Wells's face.
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11  They had come home a little late and still dinner was not ready: but it would be ready in a jiffy his mother had said.
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12  His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss.
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13  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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14  The deep low collar and the Eton jacket made him feel queer and oldish: and that morning when his mother had brought him down to the parlour, dressed for mass, his father had cried.
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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  When all had been safely stowed the vans had set off noisily down the avenue: and from the window of the railway carriage, in which he had sat with his red-eyed mother, Stephen had seen them lumbering along the Merrion Road.
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17  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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