Marie-Celeste straightened up a little, as though to show she did not quite approve, and then she replied, with an air of childish dignity that was vastly amusing, “Because it was his family motto that helped Leonard (he's the boy in the story I spoke about) ever so much, and that taught him to be cheerful and contented, and it seems to me”--this last very slowly and thoughtfully--“that you are very much like Leonard, only grown up. I suppose, as you're English, you've surely got a family motto.”