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Dogsborough is renowned as an honest and upstanding Chicago businessman and politician. However, he recently succumbed to temptation and accepted a dodgy share in the local shipyard, accompanied by the sweet bribe of a country estate. He is worried that his involvement in the deal may come to light, and he works hard to convince himself that he has done nothing wrong. He sits in his newly-acquired country estate, anxiously discussing the business with his son, Young Dogsborough. Young
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START: DOGSBOROUGH: I should never have accepted this estate. Taking that package as a gift was beyond reproach.
YOUNG DOGSBOROUGH: Of course it was.
DOGSBOROUGH: And sponsoring that loan, when I discovered to my own detriment that a thriving line of business was languishing for lack of funds, was hardly dishonest.
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END: DOGSBOROUGH: I haven’t anything to do with this affair. For sixty years I’ve trodden the narrow path, as everybody knows. They can’t involve me in their schemes.
YOUNG DOGSBOROUGH: No, father. Do you feel better now?
Brecht, Bertolt. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Methuen Publishing, 2002, pp.27-29.
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