They were agreed that Martin had come home drunk.

They did not have it in their souls to know beauty, or they would have known that those shining eyes and that glowing face betokened youth's first vision of love.
"Settin' a fine example to the children," Mr.Higginbotham snorted, suddenly, in the silence for which his wife was responsible and which he resented.

Sometimes he almost wished she would oppose him more.

"If he does it again, he's got to get out.

Understand! I won't put up with his shinanigan--debotchin' innocent children with his boozing." Mr.
Higginbotham liked the word, which was a new one in his vocabulary, recently gleaned from a newspaper column.