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प्रश्न
Describe the tone in which the narrator’s father dismissed his wife’s warnings every single time.
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उत्तर
When his wife warned him the first time, father was really astonished. He thought how a good climber like him could fall. The Second time his wife warned him, he laughed at her finding her warning to be a funny joke.
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“I think women’s hearts are sometimes very hard,” said Joe. Usually Joe Thompson got out of his wife’s way, or kept rigidly silent and non-combative when she fired up on any subject; it was with some surprise, therefore, that she now encountered a firmly-set countenance and a resolute pair of eyes.
“Women’s hearts are not half so hard as men’s!”
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