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Agnes Grey Anne Bronte 7270K 2023-09-02

I spareho a brief space of rest and liberty in that dear, fa and the loved--andadieu

I returned, however, with unabated vigour to ine, who has not felt soed with the care and direction of a set of mischievous, turbulent rebels, whom his utmost exertions cannot bind to their duty; while, at the saher poho exacts from him what cannot be achieved without the aid of the superior's more potent authority; which, either fro unpopular with the said rebellious gang, the latter refuses to give I can conceive few situationsfor success, however you may labour to fulfil your duty, your efforts are baffled and set at nought by those beneath you, and unjustly censured and ed by those above

I have not enumerated half the vexatious propensities offro too much upon the reader's patience; as, perhaps, I have already done; but es was not to aht concern; he that has no interest in such lance, and, perhaps, a ainst the prolixity of the writer; but if a parent has, therefrooverness received thereby the slightest benefit, I am well rewarded for my pains

To avoid trouble and confusion, I have taken my pupils one by one, and discussed their various qualities; but this can give no adequate idea of being worried by the whole three together; when, as was often the case, all were deterhty, and to tease Miss Grey, and put her in a passion'

Soht has suddenly occurred to , of course, my friends at home; and the idea of how they would pity reatly that I have had the utmost difficulty to restrain my tears: but I have restrained theone to dessert, or cleared off to bed (my only prospects of deliverance), and then, in all the bliss of solitude, I have givenBut this was a weakness I did not often indulge: my employments were too numerous, iven to fruitless lamentations