They say this Follingsbee woman half supports him.

The time was in New York when such doings wouldn't be allowed; and I don't think calling things by French names makes them a bit better.

So you just be careful, and steer as clear of her as you can." "I will, pa, just as clear as I can; but you know Rose is a friend of Mrs.John Seymour; and Mrs.Seymour is visiting at Mrs.
Follingsbee's." "Her husband oughtn't to let her stay there another day," said Mr.
Van Astrachan.

"It's as much as any woman's reputation is worth to be staying with her.

To think of that fellow being dancing and capering at that Jezebel's house the night his baby was dying!" "Oh, but, pa, he didn't know it." "Know it?
he ought to have known it! What business has a man to get a woman with a lot of babies round her, and then go capering off?
'Twasn't the way I did, Polly, you know, when our babies were young.