1 And then one thing and another came, and my own troubles.
2 "I don't want you should trouble either," he said, looking down into her eyes with a smile.
3 Of late, however, since he had reasons for observing her more closely, her silence had begun to trouble him.
4 She lingered a moment, caught in the same strong current; then she slipped from him and drew back a step or two, pale and troubled.
5 His mother had been a talker in her day, but after her "trouble" the sound of her voice was seldom heard, though she had not lost the power of speech.
6 But their evening together had given him a vision of what life at her side might be, and he was glad now that he had done nothing to trouble the sweetness of the picture.
7 "If there's going to be any trouble I want to be there," was his vague reflection, as he threw to Jotham the unexpected order to unhitch the team and lead them back to the barn.
8 Most people were either indifferent to his troubles, or disposed to think it natural that a young fellow of his age should have carried without repining the burden of three crippled lives.
9 The sweetness of the picture, and the relief of knowing that his fears of "trouble" with Zeena were unfounded, sent up his spirits with a rush, and he, who was usually so silent, whistled and sang aloud as he drove through the snowy fields.