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And when she knew the doctor was on his way, she could yield to Armine's signs of entreaty, lie back in her chair and sleep, while Reeves watched over him. When the doctor, by a strong man's determination, had made his way up the pass, he found matters better than he had dared to expect.
Hecuba had been warned by a prophetic dream, and lamented her daughter's fate and her own. Ulysses approached her, and asked her to give up Polyxena. The old mother tore her hair, dug her nails into her cheeks, and kissed the hands of the cruel chieftain, who, with unpitying calmness, seemed to say "Be wise, Hecuba, and yield to necessity.
What is it? has he lost money? 'I don't know, I answered, and I don't care. I only know he is safe home again, that is quite enough for me at present! 'My wife, my life. O we will walk this world Yoked, in all exercise of noble end, . . . . Indeed I love thee, come Yield thyself up: my hopes and thine are one. Tennyson.
The heart of the master was forced to yield, and the last state of that man was better than the first. "Swift Summer into the Autumn flowed," and yet there was no sign of the coming vengeance of heaven. The green corn turned pale at last before the gaze of the sun.
She was actually mine mine; not even death could rob me of the treasure of her heart, while life offered me every reward. No doubt assailed me; I believed each whispered word from her lips, and the day dawned about us with rare hope. Not now would I yield to despair, or question the future. Some sudden plunge of the boat caused the girl to open her eyes, and gaze half frightened up into my face.
But she had made up her mind not to yield her point, and so kept quietly on with her work. Bertha brought out her dolls and began to play with them, and for a couple of hours she managed to get on very well. At the end of that time she grew tired of being so by herself, and begged Violet to read to her. "Come here, Bertha, if you please," Violet said, without replying directly to her question.
Or perhaps she would speak to him about it after she had thought it over quietly by herself. Or, again, she might intend to deal with the sergeant-major in her own way. Or, once more, perhaps she was just beginning to yield to the temptation. That was as might be. Anyhow, the affront was there: his wife had been insulted, and he, Heimert, must obtain satisfaction.
"Things appear to have gone against my friends," she observed. "It was their misfortune, and cannot be helped." "Yes, the English have possession of the fort, and have captured all the junks, so that I would advise your friends here to yield themselves prisoners, as the best way of saving their lives. I will intercede for them." "A very good idea," remarked the girl.
They remarked to them that they, indeed, gave them lands, and furnished them rations for a year, but these lands were to be cleared up and tilled, in order to yield crops; that they must eat salt meat, and drink only beer or water.
'I will believe thee there also, for I fear me thou hast had so little practice in the art of resisting temptation, that thou mightst well yield to one that urged thee towards such mere essential evil.
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