Or, harder still to believe, were these soul-compelling tones, these evidences of grief, this pathetic yielding to the rights of the law in face of the heart's natural shrinking from disclosures sacred as they were tragicwere these the medium by which she sought to mislead justice and to conceal truth?

Presentlywhether in answer, whether in mere yielding of nature, I cannot tellI became aware of a difference: not a lessening of the agitation, but a softening, as if my powers of resistance being exhausted, a gentler force, a more benignant influence, had room.

Come, said he, again softened by these last words, you will not always oppose them: the fervor and constancy of my passion, joined with a little yielding on your side, will by degrees excite a tender impulse in you; and whatever is disagreeable at present, either in my person or behaviour, will wear of.

" "Her will is more yielding than mine; she doesn't seek great things for herself.

But she detected no yielding in his tone.

" Then Sir Launcelot was appeased, but he said: "Nay, I will not take your yielding unto me.