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"I think the pale skin hurts your artistic eye, or the frozen eyes, which is it?" "They have thawed into brilliant fire, something looks at me half-yielding and half-defiant, you know that, you vain child! But, Margret, nothing can atone" He stopped. "Yes, stop. That is right, Stephen. Remorse grows maudlin when it goes into words," laughing again at his astounded look.
Your future letters cannot change it, for they shall all be returned to you unopened. I know you better than to trust to the appearance of half-yielding reluctance which your letter contains. Thus it has always been, and as often as this duteous strain flattered me with hopes of winning you to reason, have I been deceived and disappointed.
"I confess I was very happy until a moment or two ago." "What do you mean by that?" the other demanded, with half-yielding pugnacity. "Till I came in is that the idea?" "Oh, papa!" said Banche, softly. "Well, honey-bee, what's the matter?" her father asked, trying to be gruff. "Can't I say what I like, here?" But he surrendered at once by adding: "You may be sure I don't want to offend any one.
His hands closed on hers, he hooked an arm about her and held her very cautiously, as though he were as afraid of her as she of him. "You mustn't be frightened, my dear," he went on, and, soothed by his kindly tones, she leaned against his knee. "That's better, child." Encouraged by her half-yielding attitude, he stroked her hair.
He was anxious and alarmed over this new obstacle, for he had the wit to see that it was a very important one. It was quite conceivable that the boy, but half-convinced, half-yielding before, would balk altogether when he realized, as evidently he did realize, what returning home might mean to him the loss of the girl he hoped to marry. Ste.
For, oblivious to the storm that was now raging outside, the youthful pair of lovers continued to concentrate their thoughts upon the storm that was raging within their own breasts, the Girl keeping up the struggle with herself, while the man urged her on as only he knew how. "Why, if I let you take one you'd take two," denied the Girl, half-yielding by her very words, if she but knew it.
The excitement in her eyes the half-doubting half-yielding fight there, of ambition, and doubt, and the stubborn wrong of it all, of her hard lot and bitter life, of the hidden splendor that might lie beyond, and yet the terrible doubt, the fear that it might end in a living death these, fighting there, lit up her eyes as candles at an altar of love.
She met it sometimes with coldness and reproaches, sometimes with affected alarm, sometimes with a half-yielding manner, and so tormented him to her heart's content, and undermined his affection for his wife. Thus she revenged herself on them both to her heart's content.
He would have been less than man if he had not drawn the half-shrinking, half-yielding figure to his heart, and held Mary tightly there as, amidst tears and sobs, she confessed how she had long felt that he loved her, but doubted herself the reality of the new sensation which had made her pleased to see him, while when she met him as they spoke something seemed to urge her to avoid him, and look hard, distant, and cold.
It was not the childishness of very youthful years, for she had already reached the mature age of twenty-one; but the half-doubting, half-pouting, half-yielding, half-obstinate, soft, loving, lovable childishness, which gives and exacts caresses, and which, when it is genuine, may exist to an age much beyond that which Clarissa Underwood had reached.
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