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Now, concerning my love-trouble, there did happen a certain thing which gave me to decide; for one night I waked from a sore troubled sleep, and it did seem that Naani did call my name, mine olden love name, and in a voice of utter anguish and with beseeching.
I have seen her stand moveless for moments, with a look that was the incarnation of essential motherhood as if her eyes were swallowing up sorrow; as if her soul was ready to be the sacrifice for sin. Then she would turn away with a droop of the eye-lids that seemed to say she saw what it was, but saw also how little she could do for it. Oh the depth of the love-trouble in those eyes of hers!
The duke's favor and friendliness ended only with his sad and sudden death. Paul de Musset tells us that the years 1837 and 1838 were the happiest in his brother's life. The love-trouble which had wrung from him the "Nuit de Décembre" was a disappointment, but not a deception, and the parting had caused equal sorrow on both sides, but no bitterness.
He did not say just what kind of trouble, but I fancied it was some sort of love-trouble; he blamed himself for it; and when he left that town to get away from the thought of it, as much as anything, and went to work in another town, he took to drink; then, once, in a drunken spree, he found himself in New York without knowing how.
Sewell fetched a long sigh of relief; he had been afraid of a much darker problem than this. He almost smiled. "My dear child," she seemed but a child there before the mature man with her poor little love-trouble, so intricate and hopeless to her, so simple and easy to him "that depends upon a great many circumstances."
We were slowly walking toward the house. Suddenly he clutched my arm with a grip that reminded me of Alf, and in a voice betraying more emotion than I had known him to show, asked whether I intended to leave him. I put my arm about him and pressed him to me, just as if he were Alf telling me of the love-trouble that lay upon his heart. "I understand you, God bless you," he said.
Sewell were there to see him, and be moved too; and he prepared himself as he might to treat the trouble which he now expected to be poured out. "Yes," said Lemuel, "I want to tell you; I want you to tell me what to do." When he had put the case fully before the minister, his listener was aware of wishing that it had been a love-trouble, such as he foreboded at first.
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