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He stood by me in my troubles, an' now his trouble's come, I'm a gwine to stan' by him. I used to think Gundover's wife war jealous ob my Katie. She war so much puttier. Gundover's wife couldn't tech my Katie wid a ten foot pole."
He continued, and now every man in the room was sitting up, alert, with gloomy eyes fixed upon Pierre: "Patterson is the first, but he ain't the last. He's just the start. Who's next?" He looked slowly around. "Is it you, Bud, or you, Phil, or you, Jim, or maybe me?" And Pierre said: "What makes you think you know that trouble's coming, Morgan?"
"I came to report h'an unfortunate condition h'among the servants, sir," said Rawies, stiffening as his responsibility became more and more weighty. He had relaxed temporarily upon entering the room. "What's the trouble?" "The trouble's h'ended, sir." "Then why bother me about it?" "I thought it would be well for you to know, sir. The servants was going to ask for 'igher wiges to-day, sir."
Jack laid his hand on the shoulder of the pony next to him, and found that it was trembling violently and running with sweat. "I rather fancy it knows all about that noise, and what's making it," went on Dent. "They understand when trouble's in the wind as well as anybody." "It must be in a terrible fright," said Jack. "Do you think the tiger will attack us, Jim?"
I had been saving it to buy another chest of drawers to stand there, opposite the door, but it's going out now in bread and meat, and I don't know whether I shall live to save up enough after the trouble's over, for I'm getting old now, look you." Up to the end of October, in ordinary seasons, the mosquitoes hold their own against all comers along the full length of the Riviera.
"Dear Herr von Niebeldingk, it's a rotten farce. For nine years the gymnasium trains you and drills you, and in the end you don't get your trouble's worth! I'm sorry for every hour of cramming I did. They released me from the oral exam., simply sent me out like a monkey when I was just beginning to let my light shine! Did you ever hear of such a thing? Did you ever?"
Then she spoke: "However it means a different thing to me from what it means to the choir." He looked at her curiously. "How different?" he smiled. "To me, it means that we really do reap what we sow, and that if we've done something very wrong in the past ugh! Better look out trouble's coming. That's what the song means to me." "And will you kindly tell me what it means to the choir?"
"The trouble's not over yet," assented Captain MacWhirr, half aloud . . . . "Look out for her a minute." "Are you going off the deck, sir?" asked Jukes, hurriedly, as if the storm were sure to pounce upon him as soon as he had been left alone with the ship. He watched her, battered and solitary, labouring heavily in a wild scene of mountainous black waters lit by the gleams of distant worlds.
Would he forthwith be an imperial autocrat; turn tyrant or Thersites; or become critic, one of "those graminivorous animals which gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, robbing them of their verdure and retarding their progress to maturity"? Straws' anxiety was trouble's labor lost.
"Let's go and look for something," proposed Ted, when he had run about a bit and thrown stones in the lake, watching the water splash up and hundreds of rings chase each other toward shore. "What'll we look for?" asked Janet, as she took hold of Trouble's hand, so he would not slip down again. "Oh, anything we can find," went on Ted.
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