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"You can't hold a boy too tight, you know, or else he'll break away altogether," old lady Breckenridge would say

"I was often severe with Clarence, and he was a good boy until he got with other boys; he was always loving to me. He never should have married Paula Verlaine," she would add

"A good woman would have overlooked his faults and made a fine man of him, but she was always an empty-headed little thing! Ah, well" -- and the poor old woman would sigh as she drew her fluffy shawl about her shoulders- -"I cannot blame myself, that's my great consolation now, Rachael, when I think of facing my Master and rendering an account. I have been heavily afflicted, but I am not the first God-fearing woman who has been visited with sorrow through her children!"