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The new girl.
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This is the pedestal of infamy,
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and you will remain upon it all day long.
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You will have neither food nor drink,
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for you must learn how barren is the life of a sinner.
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Children, I exhort you to shun her, exclude her,
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shut her out from this day forth.
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Withhold the hand of friendship
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and deny your love to Jane Eyre,
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the liar.
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How do you bear being struck?
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Miss Scatcherd hits me to improve me.