(1) These later stories find Parker's trouble with girls becoming truly troublous , and it is to Boswell's credit that the girls in question are always sharply if not always fairly drawn.(2) So why then is a government supposedly devoted to fostering British science still insisting on forcing some of its leading researchers into Dickens's u2018perplexed and troublous valley of the shadow of the lawu2019?(3) Once past social amenities, Sula's reunion with Eva resonates with the troublous timbre between an ogbanje and parent.(4) Yet James makes no complaint for what must have often been a troublous life.