Prompt #76: Shattered
Sir Leicester Dedlock, Mr Boythorn, Bleak House
Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, was, though few would have had the courage to tell him so, a pompous old fool, arrogant, bigoted, so entrenched in his ways it was doubtful whether God Almighty could have convinced him of their folly. In time he became a weak, shattered old fool and so died. But it was when he was shattered that he became a good man, when his pride was dashed to pieces that he showed the depth and warmth his nature was capable of. The one man who had the courage to call him a fool no longer wished to.
