He felt that the words might actually express a fact, and that a family might live together as if they believed them to be true.
'Yes,' said the Canon, who had come in with him, and saw him gaze at it, 'these motto-cards are very nice.

I bought several of them last time I was in Dublin, and I think I have a spare one left which I can give you if you like.

It has silver letters like that one, but printed on a crimson ground.' Evidently the design and the colouring were what struck him as noticeable.

The motto itself was a commonplace of Christian living, the expression of a basal fact, quite naturally hung where it would catch the eye of chance visitors.
In the drawing-room Mrs.Beecher and her two daughters, still in their hats and gloves, stood round a turf fire.

They made a place at once for Hyacinth, and one of the girls drew forward a rickety basket-work chair, covered with faded cretonne.