On Sundays he dressed with a certain rigor of respectability, all in black, and laid aside tobacco, at least to the public view.

He never missed going to the early Low Mass, quite alone.

His family always came later, at the ten o'clock High Mass.
There had been, at one time or another, a good many members of this family.

Two wives had borne Jeremiah Madden a total of over a dozen children.

Of these there survived now only two of the first Mrs.
Madden's offspring--Michael and Celia--and a son of the present wife, who had been baptized Terence, but called himself Theodore.