I had tried them on every week or so for a long time.

Now my stature filled them handsomely and they filled me with a pride and satisfaction which I had never known before.

The collar was too tight, so that Aunt Deel had to sew one end of it to the neckband, but my tie covered the sewing.
Since that dreadful day of the petticoat trousers my wonder had been regarding all integuments, what Sally Dunkelberg would say to them.

At last I could start for Canton with a strong and capable feeling.

If I chanced to meet Sally Dunkelberg I need not hide my head for shame as I had done that memorable Sunday.
"Now may the Lord help ye to be careful--awful, terrible careful o' them clothes every minute o' this day," Aunt Deel cautioned as she looked at me.