"May I not share your care or sorrow, whatever it is ?" "I would rather share only joys and blessings with you, dearest, and keep the cares and burdens to myself," he answered, smiling lovingly upon her, and pressing with affectionate warmth the little hand she had placed in his.
"No, I can't consent to that," she said.

"I consider it one of my precious privileges to be allowed to share your burdens and anxieties.

Won't you tell me what troubles you ?" "It is nothing new, little wife," he answered cheerfully; "but I am doubting whether I do right to give your mother and grandfather so troublesome a charge as Lulu.

She is almost certain to be wilful and rebellious occasionally, if not oftener." Mrs.Travilla had resigned the babe to its mother, and was now standing near the sofa where the captain and Violet sat.
"Mamma," said the latter, turning to her, "my husband is making himself miserable with the fear that Lulu will prove too troublesome to you and grandpa." "Please do not, captain," Elsie said brightly, accepting the easy-chair he hastened to bring forward for her.

"Why should I not have a little trouble as well as other people?
Lulu is an attractive child to me, very bright and original, a little headstrong, perhaps, but I shall lay siege to her heart and try to rule her through her affections." "I think that will be the better plan," he said, the look of care lifting from his brow; "she is a warm-hearted child, and more easily led than driven.