over-generous

Updated: May 21, 2025

"Peter, you are over-generous to me," said the old man, when the gifts arrived, "I never did anything for you." "You must consider them as God's gifts; if He had not bestowed them on me I could not have offered them to you," answered Peter. "I see, I see," said the old man; "He orders all for the best, praise His name."

William Henry Giles Kingston - The History of Little Peter, the Ship Boy