"Madam," he pursued, "I have a Master to serve whose kingdom is not of this world: my mission is to mortify in these girls the lusts of the flesh; to teach them to clothe themselves with shame-facedness and sobriety, not with braided hair and costly apparel; and each of the young persons before us has a string of hair twisted in plaits which vanity itself might have woven; these, I repeat, must be cut off; think of the time wasted, of--" Mr. Brocklehurst was here interrupted: three other visitors, ladies, now entered the room.
— Signora, — diss'egli, — debbo servire un padrone, il cui regno non è di questo mondo; la mia missione è di mortificare in quelle ragazze i desiderii della carne. Sì, lo ripeto, quei capelli che la vanità stessa pare abbia intrecciati, debbono esser tagliati.