In the matter of wills, personal qualities were subordinate to the great fundamental fact of blood; and to be determined in the distribution of your property by caprice, and not make your legacies bear a direct ratio to degrees of kinship, was a prospective disgrace that would have embittered her life.
Casaubon must have been newly embittered by this thrusting upon him of a presence which he refused to recognize.
All her dear plans were embittered, and she thought with disgust of Sir James's conceiving that she recognized him as her lover.
Since then she had been embittered.
But as, The Cæsar's pageant shorn of Brutus' bust Did but of Rome's best son remind her more, so the marked absence of any tribute or recognition from Diana Barry who was sitting with Gertie Pye embittered Anne's little triumph.
I speak of such things here in the hope of helping others to believe with me that there are resources within one's grasp which enable one to sustain such blows without being crushed or embittered by them.
