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प्रश्न
Find sentences from the play related to the given points.
The tension between different loyalties
- It’s little we get but abuse from the people, and no choice but to obey our orders.
- ________________________________
- ________________________________
- ________________________________
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उत्तर
The tension between different loyalties
- It’s little we get but abuse from the people, and no choice but to obey our orders.
- But to think of a man like you knowing a song like that.
- One of the boys you used to be singing with that time you will be arresting to-day or tomorrow.
- Sergeant, I am thinking it was with the people you were, and not with the law you were, when you were a young man.
- Maybe, Sergeant, it comes into your head sometimes, in spite of your belt and your tunic, that it might have been as well for you to have followed Granuaile.
- (After a pause.) No one.
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