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"I am a non-resistant" concluded the clergyman, "and I would rather die than take the life of my bitterest enemy." The man listened very attentively. When they came to the next road, he asked to be allowed to get out, as he said his home lay that way. After bidding farewell, he added, "I thank you for taking me in, and for all you have said to me. I shall never forget it.
I then reproached him in the bitterest terms for his breach of promise, and said that I was much tempted to return to the town instantly, complain of him to the alcalde, and have him punished at any expense. To which he replied, "Sir Cavalier, by so doing you will be nothing nearer Finisterra, to which you seem so eager to get.
Outside opposition cannot embitter, for it cannot touch the soul. But that two who have walked as friends, one in aim and one in heart, perhaps of the same household of faith, should stand face to face with hard brows and gleaming eyes, should speak as foes and not as lovers of the same love, is, in spite of the poets and romancers, the bitterest moment of life.
And we call that man god-like whose heart yearns towards one little ideal, struggling for existence amid the tumultuous passions that clash in him around it, threatening to stifle it, and whose personality drives him to pick this ideal out and to lift it up and to hold it supreme lifelong. He himself is its bitterest enemy, its most hateful foe, its would-be murderer.
All was hers to do with as she pleased, and the bitterest tears she ever shed were those which fell like rain when she heard how generous Wilford had been. Then, as she thought of Marian, and the life of poverty before her, she crept to Father Cameron's side, and said to him, pleadingly: "Let Genevra share it with me. She needs it quite as much."
Neumann, during the confusion in the hall, escaped into the court, where, however, he was instantly recognised and cut down. Illo alone had the presence of mind to defend himself. He placed his back against a window, from whence he poured the bitterest reproaches upon Gordon, and challenged him to fight him fairly and honourably.
These names are spoken of on every one of our reserves. I tell you, sir," he said, turning his blind eyes toward the Superintendent, "I consider it very serious indeed. And worst of all, the biggest villain of the lot, Little Pine, Cree Chief you know, our bitterest enemy except Little Thunder, who fortunately is cleared out of the country you remember, sir, that chap Raven saw about that."
The question was gently spoken, but the eyes were like destiny. "Any child of hers will be good to me," Skag answered softly. A glow loomed in the blacknesses and Roderick Deal flashed Skag a smile which reminded him, at last, of Carlin. "European men, in the early days, were responsible for the branding, now carried by thousands in India carried with shame and the bitterest sort of curses.
Worst of all and bitterest it is when love comes too late, too late, John! I say in your case, it comes too late!" John sighed and smiled. "Love if it has come to me at all is never too late," he said with quiet patience, "My dear Brent, don't you understand?
He read it through, once, twice, with livid face; then clashed it on the floor. "Fool! cur! liar! she is as pure as God's sunlight." "You need not tell me that," said Valencia, through her closed teeth. "Fool! fool!" And then, in a moment, his voice changed from indignation to the bitterest self-reproach. "And fool I; thrice fool! Who am I, to rail on him? Oh God! what have I done?"
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