not-to-be-borne

Updated: May 7, 2025

An inhumanly tyrannical mother-in-law, the most vicious of her vicious kind, whose chief delight was to torture the high-strung nature she was too small to comprehend; a husband, encouraged in his not-to-be-borne gallantries by his own mother, this same monstrous mother-in-law of the Empress; her children's love aborted by this same fiend in woman form is it any marvel that the proud Empress broke away from her splendid torture and found a sad comfort in travel and study?

Lilian Bell - Abroad with the Jimmies