Bitter feelings were in the little girl's heart (as we learn in
Mrs. Molesworth's The Bolted Door, 1906).
Indeed, "Long before your children are capable of expressing their feelings in words, you see in them the exhibitions of pride, anger, revenge, selfishness, and other evil passions; and these 'roots of bitterness' are constantly 'springing up' at every subsequent period of life" (
Joseph Cross, Headlands of Faith, 1856).