At other times they are neither serviceable nor comfortable; they do not answer the required purposes, and are ill adapted to give us the ease we seek.

A new coat, however, has this advantage, that it will in time become old and comfortable; so much can by no means be predicted with certainty of a new friend.

Woe to those men who go through the world with none but new coats on their backs, with no boots but those of polished leather, with none but new friends to comfort them in adversity.
But not the less, when misfortune does come, are we inclined to grumble at finding ourselves deserted.

Gertrude, though she certainly wished to see no Mrs.Val and no Miss Neverbends, did feel lonely enough when her mother left her, and wretched enough.
But she was not altogether deserted.

At this time Charley was true to her, and did for her all those thousand nameless things which a woman cannot do for herself.