He resolved to try to reach the same result through Gretchen, whom she upbraided with her tongue but loved in her heart.
Mrs.Woods had come to regard it as her appointed mission to abuse people for their good.

She thought it tended toward their spiritual progress and development.

She often said that she felt "called to set things right, and not let two or three people have their own way in everything"-- a view of life not uncommon among people of larger opportunities and better education.
Benjamin came to school the next morning silent and sullen, and the master went to him again in the same spirit as before.
"She say I no right here," he said.

"She suffer for it.

She wah-wah.