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His week-day clothes were as simple as his workaday manners , fitting his short black pipe and his steadfast devotion to his business . 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 .