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And I was placed there, by whom I don't knoas in no condition

to note particulars; I was only aware that they had hoisted ht of Mr Brocklehurst's nose, that he ithin a yard of

e and purple silk pelisses and a

cloud of silvery plue extended and waved belowto his family, "Miss Teirl?"

Of course they did; for I felt their eyes directed like burning-

glasses against ; you observe she possesses the ordinary

foriven her the shape that He

has given to all of us; no signal deformity points her out as a

marked character Who would think that the Evil One had already

found a servant and agent in her? Yet such, I grieve to say, is the

case"

A pause--in which I began to steady the palsy of my nerves, and to

feel that the Rubicon was passed; and that the trial, no longer to

be shirked, must be firmly sustained

"My dear children," pursued the black yman, with pathos,

"this is a sad, a melancholy occasion; for it becoht be one of God's own lambs, is a

little castaway: not a member of the true flock, but evidently an

interloper and an alien You ainst her; you

must shun her example; if necessary, avoid her company, exclude her

from your sports, and shut her out from your converse Teachers,