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Carefully he drew forth the crumpled flower. He looked at her, then at the rose, hoping against hope that she might relent. He hesitated till he saw an impatient movement of the extended hand. He surrendered. "Thank you. That is all. You may go." She tossed the withered flower into the waste-basket. "Pardon me, but before I go I have to announce that I shall resign my position next Monday.
Let Phoenix abide by me here that he may return with me to-morrow in my ships if he will, for I will not constrain him by force." Phoenix had been Achilles' tutor. In terror for the safety of the Greek fleet, he appealed to his friend to relent. "How can I be left alone here without thee, dear child? Thy father sent me to teach thee to be a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
His time is pretty much taken up in keeping his relation, who is a little melancholy, in spirits, and in learning to blow the French-horn. My eldest daughter, however, still remembers him with regret; and she has even told me, though I make a great secret of it, that when he reforms she may be brought to relent.
I believed, by the grace of God, and therefore came out, got into the way, fought all that set themselves against me, and, by believing, am come to this place. Who would true valour see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather. There's no discouragement Shall make him once relent, His first avow'd intent To be a pilgrim.
He was a martinet; he knew it; he gloried on the distinction. "All the world loves a disciplinarian," he was wont to say. Nevertheless, like many great princes, he realized that political reasons might counsel at times an abatement of rigour. He could relent and show mercy. He could interpose his authority in favour of the condemned.
The leddy's actin' under orders." And not only was O'Flynn behind him but Stuart. "Sign to Mrs. MacLeod that she may go," said that officer, "but not for long. Shake your head, seem doubtful. Then take your hat and wave it to the Cherokee wench, as if you relent for her sake!"
And there were prayers daily for the softening of Linda's heart. And it was understood that every one in the house was supposed to be living under some special cloud of God's anger till Linda's consent should have been given. Madame Staubach had declared during the ecstasy of her devotion, that not only she herself, but even Tetchen also, would become the prey of Satan if Linda did not relent.
He was at Milan at the time, and at first Ambrose so worked on his feelings as to make him promise to temper justice with mercy; but afterwards fresh accounts of the murder, together with the representations of his courtier Rufinus, made him resolve not to relent, and he sent off messengers commanding that there should be a general slaughter of all the race-going Thessalonicans, since all were equally guilty of Botheric's death.
But I saw her face relent at what she heard. "I have other plans. And you should have told her what you have told me." "Ah, have I not?" But then I suddenly remembered that, by some reversal of my logical mind, here I was, making love to Auntie Lucinda, whom I did not love, whereas in the past I had spent much time in mere arguing with Helena, whom I did love.
But at that the ladies had looked such indignant, heart-broken daggers at him that, very ungraciously, it is true, and with language that made their sensibilities hop like peas in a pan, he had felt obliged to relent. He had gathered up the lists and stuffed them into his pocket, and had turned away with one bitter and awful phrase. "Waste not, want not!" he had said.
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