Villette, Chapter 4: samenvatting

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1. Lucy leaves Bretton, describes prolonged suffering through shipwreck imagery, and explains that she can no longer depend on Mrs. Bretton.
2. Miss Marchmont offers Lucy work as her companion, and Lucy accepts after repeated visits create mutual affection.
3. Lucy makes the sickroom her entire world and finds satisfaction in caring for her demanding employer.
4. During a February storm, Lucy hears a troubling wind that she associates with threats to life.
5. Miss Marchmont wakes feeling unusually well and recounts how her beloved Frank dies in her arms thirty years earlier.
6. She promises to help Lucy, goes to sleep, and is found dead the next morning after a fatal stroke.

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Miss Marchmont moves from questioning her suffering toward acceptance and concern for Lucy. Her promise of practical help follows, but death interrupts it.

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