To show a wretched girl wandering from one misfortune to another; the plaything of wickedness; the butt of every kind of debauchery; confronted with the most barbaric and most monstrous tastes; stunned by the most brazen and most specious sophistries; a prey to the most cunning of seductions and the most irresistible of subornations; having no other defences against so many setbacks, so many scourges, so much corruption, but a sensitive heart, a mind formed by Nature, a great deal of courage.