"It partakes of that divine quality of charity so sadly lacking in many of us, and sheds golden beams of sunshine in the humblest earthly home.

It has been aptly called the true earnest of eternity." "Really!" said Avery.
"An exquisite thought, is it not ?" said the Vicar.

"Grace, my child, for the one-and-twentieth time I must beg of you not to swing your legs when sitting at table." "I wasn't," said Gracie.
Her father's brows were elevated in surprise.

His eyes as a consequence were opened rather wider than usual, revealing an unmistakably malignant gleam.
"That is not the way in which a Christian child should receive admonition," he said.

"If you were not swinging your legs, you were fidgeting in a fashion which you very well know to be unmannerly.