A Christian can't be expected to care about beasts--but right is right all the world over.
Because a monkey is a nasty creature (as I have heard, not even good to eat when he's dead), that's no reason for taking him out of his own country and putting him into a cage.

If we are to see creatures in prison, let's see creatures who have deserved it--men and women, rogues and sluts.

The monkeys haven't deserved it.

Go in--I'll wait for you at the door." Setting her bitterest emphasis on this protest, which expressed inveterate hostility to Maria (using compassion for caged animals as the readiest means at hand), Teresa seated herself in triumph on the nearest bench.
A young person, possessed of no more than ordinary knowledge, might have left the old woman to enjoy the privilege of saying the last word.

Miss Minerva's pupil, exuding information as it were at every pore in her skin, had been rudely dried up at a moment's notice.