Chapter 20
The Theatre Taken Down
Edmund’s first object the next morning was to see his father alone, and give him a fair statement of the whole acting scheme, defending his own share in it as far only as he could then, in a soberer moment, feel his motives to deserve, and acknowledging, with perfect ingenuousness, that his concession had been attended with such partial good as to make his judgment in it very doubtful. He was anxious, while vindicating himself, to say nothing unkind of the others: but there was only one amongst them whose conduct he could mention without some necessity of defence or…
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Critical Thinking Exercise
Practise Moral Courage Without Authority
Write six lines on The Theatre Taken Down: 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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