...others have. In order to purchase it, you are tempted to steal. The next step perhaps is the gallows. "Each of the young persons before us has a string of hair twisted in plaits which vanity might have woven," splutters Brocklehurst. "My mission is to ... teach them to clothe themselves with...

...the slightest hint at sexual attractiveness is taken away. "I have a Master to serve whose kingdom is not of this world: my mission is to mortify in...the flesh; to teach them to clothe themselves with shame- facedness and sobriety, not with braided hair and costly apparel; .."13 The hypocrisy of these...