Chapter 16
The East Room
It was not in Miss Crawford’s power to talk Fanny into any real forgetfulness of what had passed. When the evening was over, she went to bed full of it, her nerves still agitated by the shock of such an attack from her cousin Tom, so public and so persevered in, and her spirits sinking under her aunt’s unkind reflection and reproach. To be called into notice in such a manner, to hear that it was but the prelude to something so infinitely worse, to be told that she must do what was so impossible as to act; and then…
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Critical Thinking Exercise
Practise Moral Courage Without Authority
Write six lines on The East Room: who asked, who paid, and what you would have said. Keep it to this chapter.
Consider:
- •The working skill is Moral Courage Without Authority.
- •Use only beats from this chapter.
- •Name a cost, not a slogan.
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