self-comforter

Updated: May 9, 2025

We say that youth easily consoles itself for the robberies of the grave, middle age is a still better self-comforter. When Mrs. Elton found herself installed in the cottage, she looked round, and burst into tears. "And William is not here!" she said. "Friends friends! if we had had but one such friend before he died!"

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete

We say that youth easily consoles itself for the robberies of the grave, middle age is a still better self-comforter. When Mrs. Elton found herself installed in the cottage, she looked round, and burst into tears. "And William is not here!" she said. "Friends friends! if we had had but one such friend before he died!"

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 04