He wanted to bring his children up to be ladies and gentlemen---and they are! They are all three of them too shiftless to do any work.

They take the old man's money, but they won't live with him.

They are too busy in 'society' to bother with the old man.

On what he is able to turn over to his children every month they keep a rather pretentious home in Fenton, though they live a full mile away from their father.

They never go near him, except for more money.