Sundered by interest and ambition, by education and the habits of thought, trained to widely different ways of looking at life, and with the memories of the hostile past fresh in their minds, they were in no humor to do justice to one another.

Each side regarded the other with jealousy and dislike, and often with bitter hatred.

Each often unwisely scorned the other.

Each kept green in mind the wrongs suffered at the other's hands, and remembered every discreditable fact in the other's recent history--every failure, every act of cruelty or stupidity, every deed that could be held as the consequence of the worst moral and mental shortcomings.

Neither could appreciate the other's many and real virtues.