1 "I am sorry you have been in trouble," she said.
2 Perhaps he thought it foolish that she should trouble him about such a trifle.
3 Her eyes sought the faces about her, craving a responsive glance, some sign of an intuition of her trouble.
4 Her voice had dropped to a note of seriousness, and she sat gazing up at him with the troubled gravity of a child.
5 She did not quite remember what it was that she had been afraid to meet, but the uncertainty no longer troubled her.
6 "You know I can coax the water to boil in five minutes," Selden continued, speaking as though she were a troubled child.
7 What troubled him was that, though Dorset's attitude had perceptibly changed, the change was not clearly to be accounted for.
8 Really, Lily, I don't see why you took the trouble to go to the wedding, if you don't remember what happened or whom you saw there.
9 She raised the troubled loveliness of her face to Mrs. Peniston, vainly hoping that a sight so moving to the other sex might not be without effect upon her own.
10 Analysis and introspection might come later; but for the moment she was not even troubled by the excesses of the upholstery or the restless convolutions of the furniture.
11 Few women took the trouble to make themselves agreeable to Dorset, and Lily had been kind to him at Bellomont, and was now smiling on him with a divine renewal of kindness.
12 To this end she assiduously showed herself at the restaurants they frequented, where, attended by the troubled Gerty, she lunched luxuriously, as she said, on her expectations.
13 All through her troubled sleep she had been conscious of having no space to toss in, and the long effort to remain motionless made her feel as if she had spent her night in a train.
14 Then, gradually, his troubled vision cleared, old hints and rumours came back to him, and out of the very insinuations he had feared to probe, he constructed an explanation of the mystery.
15 The worst of it was that, in interpreting Miss Bart's state of mind, so many alternative readings were possible; and one of these, in Selden's troubled mind, took the ugly form suggested by Mrs. Fisher.
16 The certainty that she could marry Percy Gryce when she pleased had lifted a heavy load from her mind, and her money troubles were too recent for their removal not to leave a sense of relief which a less discerning intelligence might have taken for happiness.
17 Hang it, if he could find a way out of such difficulties for a professional sponge like Carry Fisher, who was simply a mental habit corresponding to the physical titillations of the cigarette or the cock-tail, he could surely do as much for a girl who appealed to his highest sympathies, and who brought her troubles to him with the trustfulness of a child.
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