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“Well, whip her, then, to your heart’s content; I’ll give you full power to do what you like.” “Children always have to be whipped,” said Miss Ophelia; “I never heard of bringing them up without.” “O, well, certainly,” said St. Clare; “do as you think best. Only I’ll make one suggestion: I’ve seen this child whipped with a poker, knocked down with the shovel or tongs, whichever came handiest, etc.; and, seeing that she is used to that style of operation, I think your whippings will have to be pretty energetic, to make much impression.” “What is to be done with her, then?” said Miss Ophelia. “You have started a serious question,” said St. Clare; “I wish you’d answer it. What is to be done with a human being that can be governed only by the lash,- that fails,- it’s a very common state of things down here!” “I’m sure I don’t know; I never saw such a child as this.” “Such children are very common among us, and such men and women, too. How are they to be governed?” said St. Clare. “I’m sure it’s more than I can say,” said Miss Ophelia. “Or I either,” said St. Clare. “The horrid cruelties and outrages that once and awhile find their way into the papers,- such cases as Prue’s, for example,- what do they come from? In many cases, it is a gradual hardening process on both sides,- the owner growing more and more cruel, as the servant more and more callous. |
