Perhaps because he had seen what had happened to his sister, when Dumbledore realized he had been cursed and had only a year left to live, he did not choose treatment.
He did not want to "live" like that.
Georgiana walked through the shadows of Sforza Castle, watching the young people exercising on the sunlit lawn. Even without looking at their handsome features, the vitality they radiated was beautiful enough.
She stopped and stood to one side.
In that scene, which she could not tell was a dream or something else, Letizia saw Bonaparte, tanned and much thinner.
"You've lost more weight. You're killing yourself," she said.
"No, quite the opposite," Bonaparte replied. "I can truly feel that I'm alive."
Josephine had brought him pain, yet he still loved her. Georgiana could feel it...
In Chapter Six of Kant's "Metaphysics of Morals," it was written: humanity itself was a dignity, because no one could treat a person merely as a means, whether themselves or others.
Anne Boleyn had thought she could replace Henry VIII's queen, Catherine. Yet Henry VIII had not wanted to marry Catherine of Aragon; he had wanted to marry Catherine of Castile. But when Catherine married into England, Castile was to be inherited by Catherine, Juana, or Maria.
It was said that on the day of Catherine's funeral, Anne Boleyn gave birth to a boy. He simply did not survive; he showed no signs of life from the moment he was born.
She let out a long sigh.
Even at her most infatuated, Georgiana had never thought of replacing Josephine. She remembered one thing clearly: whatever means she used to obtain something, others would use the same means to take it from her.
If youth and beauty were her means, then younger and more beautiful women would