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But Elias came not, nor human comforter, nor angel deliverer. It was the will of God, it was the will of the Son of God, that he should be "perfected through sufferings"; that for the eternal example of all his children as long as the world should last he should "endure unto the end." And now the end was come.
"And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever." JOHN xiv. 16. The great lack of our life is that we do not pray more. And there is no failure so disastrous or criminal as this. It is very difficult to account for it.
The woman who had brought up the procession, found a place in the far corner, and began to unwind the comforter around her neck. Her eyes were brighter and more agitated than any in the room. "A brave trapse all the way from Upper Woon," remarked the youngest mother, wiping a smear of rain from her baby's forehead. "Ah, 'tis your first, Mary Polsue.
The fame of her beauty and abilities had, however, reached Cowfold, and so it came to pass that when Mr. Thomas Broad, junior, being duly instructed in the doctrine of the Comforter, entered the Dissenting College in London, he determined that at the first opportunity he would call and see her.
He struggled to keep his mind steadily and composedly fixed upon the fate that awaited him a fate which he had marked out for himself, and resolved not to escape. He forced himself to regard the great Enemy of Man as his best friend his only comforter and refuge.
The rabbit is so careful, that lest her young should take cold while she is from home, she makes a sort of thick pad or comforter of her own hair, and lays it for a covering over them. In fact, I doubt whether they ever take cold at all, young or old; while with man, to have a cold seems to be his natural state, particularly in the winter season.
At this point Joan broke down and began to sob passionately, and John had to turn comforter. And thus the painful hours went by, and the bread was not baked, and the boats went to sea without John; and the two sorrowful hearts sat together on their lonely hearth and talked of the child who had run away from their love.
The stone-cold comforter attracts the poets, and most of them, like Keats, are half in love with easeful death. The word that causes a shudder when it is spoken in a drawing-room gives a sombre and satisfying pleasure when we dwell upon it in our hours of solitude. Sometimes the poets are palpably guilty of hypocrisy, for they pretend to crave for the passage into the shades.
He uncorked his bottle, made a pretence of sucking at it, and passed it to his neighbours, the rough customers. They imbibed with freedom. The carriage was very dark, the lamp 'moved like a moon in a wane, as Merton might have quoted in happier circumstances. The rough customers glared at him, but his cap had a peak, and he wore his comforter high.
On the present occasion he wore it very much on one side, with the back part forward in consequence of its being the least rusty; round his neck he wore a flaming red worsted comforter, whereof the straggling ends peeped out beneath his threadbare Newmarket coat, which was very tight and buttoned all the way up.
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