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If not, ride on again, and God be with you." "Ay," said Masouda, "ride and head for the Emesa bridge it can be seen from far and there yield yourselves to the officers of Salah-ed-din." They hung back, but in a stern voice Godwin repeated: "Ride, I command you both." "For Rosamund's sake, so be it," answered Wulf.
We even drank our urine, which moistened our mouths indeed, but excited our thirst the more. Some even drank large draughts of sea-water, which had like to have killed them. On the 25th April we came to the island of Cano, in lat. 8° 47' N. which, by the verdure, promised to yield us water, if our canoe could get on shore.
There was a little box among the others, just big enough for a seat, and upon this I sat down, and gave way to reflection. What had I best do? Yield up all thoughts of the sea, and return to the farm, and my crabbed old uncle? You will say that this would have been the wisest course for me to have pursued, as well as the most natural.
"Then you walk yourself right back over to the hotel and get 'em back of? of her, and let them clo'es you got on. Go!" he roughly pointed to the door. "She wouldn't give 'em back to me. She'd know I hadn't ought to yield up to temptation, and she'd help me to resist by refusing me my fashionable clo'es." "You tell her if you come back home without 'em, I'm whippin' you!
One thinks of those Cabalistic words of old Glanville, "Man does not yield himself to Death save by the weakness of his mortal Will."
"But what is even more surprising than all this is, that some of our Catholic clergy, and among them some even of those who should be first and foremost in fighting for sound religious principles, and seeing that our youth are carefully brought up in them, are too much inclined to yield to the godless spirit of the age to the so-called liberal views on Catholic education, which have been clearly and solemnly condemned by the Holy See.
Finally, as the lessons were less and less attended to, and the needs of the stall became more urgent, Dr. May and Margaret concurred in a decision, that it was better to yield to the mania, and give up the studies till they could be pursued with a willing mind.
"Here, Monsieur de Buxieres," said she, "here is the very note you were looking for. You seem to be somewhat impatient. Our country folk are not so bad as you think; only they do not yield easily to new influences. The beginning is always difficult for them. I know something about it myself.
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Whether it will come with the full moon of to-morrow night, or the next, or the following one, your spirits alone can know; but yesterday was surely too soon to expect the new happiness." "And he?" asked the old dame. "He certainly did not make it easy for me," was the reply, "but as I remained firm, he was obliged to yield. I granted only his earnest desire to see me again this evening.
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