Pupils! Observe this child. She is yet young. She possesses the ordinary form of girlhood....

Henry Brocklehurst:

Pupils! Observe this child. She is yet young. She possesses the ordinary form of girlhood. No single deformity points her out as a marked character. Who would believe that the evil one had already found in her a servant and an agent? Yet such, I grieve to tell you, is the case. Therefore, you must be on your guard against her. Shun her example, avoid her company, exclude her from your sports, and shut her out from your converse. Teachers! You must watch her, weigh well her words, and scrutinize her actions. Punish her body to save her soul. For it is my duty to warn you, and my tongue faIters as l tell it, that this girl, this child, the native of a Christian land, no better than many a little heathen that said its prayers to Brahma and kneels before Jagannath. This girl is a liar!