Chapter 13
Mr Yates Brings the Play
The Honourable John Yates, this new friend, had not much to recommend him beyond habits of fashion and expense, and being the younger son of a lord with a tolerable independence; and Sir Thomas would probably have thought his introduction at Mansfield by no means desirable. Mr. Bertram’s acquaintance with him had begun at Weymouth, where they had spent ten days together in the same society, and the friendship, if friendship it might be called, had been proved and perfected by Mr. Yates’s being invited to take Mansfield in his way, whenever he could, and by his promising to come;…
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Critical Thinking Exercise
Practise How Upbringing Shapes a Character
Write six lines on Mr Yates Brings the Play: who asked, who paid, and what you would have said. Keep it to this chapter.
Consider:
- •The working skill is How Upbringing Shapes a Character.
- •Use only beats from this chapter.
- •Name a cost, not a slogan.
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