Mrs. Joyce and Mrs. Flanagan disliked each other heartily and never met without using language calculated to embitter the feeling between them.

Would it have been possible to design a system better calculated to embitter, impoverish, and demoralize a valuable portion of the Empire?

The apprehension, too, which was afterwards fatally realized, that many of us should never meet again, was calculated to embitter my leave-taking, even more poignantly.