Agnes Grey, Chapter 4: samenvatting

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1. Miss Grey returns from a happy visit home and resumes work, struggling to manage three children without their parents’ support.
2. The children endanger her belongings and escape into the snow, where Mr. Bloomfield orders them inside and blames her.
3. Miss Grey overhears the grandmother questioning her suitability and grows guarded; polite remarks briefly restore the older woman’s favor.
4. Mr. Bloomfield increases his inspections and condemns Miss Grey even when the children quietly crush empty eggshells.
5. Miss Grey withholds supper until the children clear their rubbish, but Mrs. Bloomfield rewards Tom’s violent refusal with food.
6. Betty offers sympathy and explains that she loses her position because she continues to strike the children.

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Miss Grey’s reply distinguishes the father’s effective authority from her own unsupported position. His immediate blame ignores that difference.

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