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Maurice's Uncle Henry and Aunt Mary took them in until Maurice could get a job. Uncle Henry's wife counted every cigar he smoked, yet he maintained his cheerfulness. He reminded one somewhat of Mark Tapley, somewhat of Moses, but mostly of William James -- the Pragmatic Sanction justified everything to him.
Aunt Mary was of distinguished lineage, descendant of the late Lydia Pinkham and of the late Ralph Waldo Emerson. She inherited the Pinkham physique, the Emerson mentality.