41/49 I have been waiting ever since I knew him for an excuse to hate him; and now he has given me one. He has taken part--like a true parent--against you with a self-intoxicated fool whom he ought to have put out of the house. He has told me to mind my own business. I shall be even with him for that some day. I am as vindictive as an elephant: I hate people who are not vindictive: they are never grateful either, only incapable of any enduring sentiment. |