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In the closet hung several out-grown suits of Thorny's, made over for his valet; and, what Ben valued infinitely more, a pair of boots, well blacked and ready for grand occasions, when he rode abroad, with one old spur, found in the attic, brightened up and merely worn for show, since nothing would have induced him to prick beloved Lita with it.
The fabric is liable to be a "second" with some imperfection, or to contain a thread of cotton which gives it a rough look when laundered, and there is generally a shortage in width which suggests the advisability of measuring the table top before buying, for cloths come in different widths, and one which is too narrow looks out-grown and awkward and stingy!
And even now, dear as is the oblivion of night and dreamless sleep to the spirit, harassed and world-worn, that in outgrowing its child-like feelings and happiness, has, alas! also out-grown what its increase of worldly wisdom can hardly make amends for the child-like purity, and intense enjoyment of simple pleasures, which marked its earlier years even now, weary and dull-hearted as we are become, we would not willingly lose this delight of our happier days, although it fall on the still darkness like wail for a departed friend, unsealing the fount of mournful memories, whose bitter waters gush from their stricken rock; sad as are its associations, they are of that sadness whereby the "heart is made better."
And all the fete days for quite a long while were wet days, and she feared she would never have a chance of wearing her pretty white dress. But when she went to put it on, she found that she had out-grown it, and that it was too small for her every way. So she had to wear a common old frock after all. Things happen that way, you know, in this world.
Finally, he might say: "Permit me to observe that you made a curious and somewhat amazing statement, just now, in reference to faith and an all-wise purpose. Is it possible that you are still under the influence of an out-grown mediaeval superstition?
As the left leg had out-grown the other, Bourne was obliged to use crutches for three years, when his father took him to a specialist in Boston, and the result was that he was able to abandon crutches and in the end to get about by an appliance to adjust the lengths of the different legs, such as his friends were familiar with.
The latter is the manageable unit, because its dimensions and its needs have not out-grown the range of the individual intelligence and ability of those who dwell therein. Our troubles in large towns arise chiefly from the fact that the massing of population has caused the physical bulk of Society to outgrow its intelligence.
"Only some out-grown garments; They were all I had to spare; But they'll help to clothe the needy, And the poor are everywhere. "A word now and then of comfort, That cost me nothing to say; But the poor old man died happy, And it helped him on the way. "God loveth the cheerful giver, Though the gifts be poor and small; But what must he think of his children Who never give at all?"
Now, I never had a "bran new" jacket and trowsers in my life never, and I don't believe I ever shall; for my two brothers have shot up like Jack's bean-stalk, and left all their out-grown clothes "to be made over for George;" and that cross old tailoress keeps me from bat and ball, an hour on the stretch, while she laps over, and nips in, and tucks up, and cuts off their great baggy clothes for me.
"Simply that in his case as we say the hypothesis of faith is weighted with a vast mass of stubborn matter that it was never meant to carry bad history, bad criticism, an out-grown philosophy. To make it carry it in our belief you have to fly in the face of that gradual education of the world education of the mind, education of the conscience which is the chief mark of God in the world.
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