PART TWO - THE SCHOOLGIRL
CHAPTER FIVE
Mr. Brocklehurst's Visit

While Mr. Brocklehurst was talking, I [-----1-----] my face behind my writing alate so that he would not see me. But suddenly the slate fell from my hand and broke in two on the hard floor! I knew what would happen next.
Mr. Broklehurst looked at me coldly.
"Come here, child."
I was too frightened to move, but two big girls pushed me towards him. Miss Temple [-----2-----] to me, "don't be afraid, Jane. I saw it was an accident." Her kindness made me feel better, but I knew that soon she would hear the lies about me, and then she would dislike me too.
"Put the child on that chair," said Mr. Brocklehurst. Some [-----3-----] me up on to a high chair, so that I was close to his nose. Frightened, I felt everyone's eyes on me.
"You see this girl?" said Mr. Brocklehurst. "She is young; she looks like an ordinary child. But she is not. She is very wicked! Children, don't talk to her, stay away from her. Teachers, watch her carefully. You must punish her body to save her soul-- if she has a soul. This child... I can hardly say it... this child is a liar!"
"How terrible!" said the two Brocklehurst daughters.
"I learned this," continued the man, "from Mrs. Reed, the kind lady who cared for her. In the end, Mrs. Reed was so afraid of this child's bad ways that she had to send her here. So, teachers, watch her carefully!"

Vocabulary Focus

you must punish her body to save her soul：你們必須懲罰她的肉體以拯救她的靈魂。
表面上這是一所救助孤兒的慈善學校，但實際上卻充滿了險惡的偽善行為。這一句最能體現這個學校奉行的教育本質：從肉體和心靈上對孩子進行雙重折磨。