"Between school and other things, my schedule has not allowed for Shabbat very much." And when his brother took the cigar and got a mini scolding, he rolled his eyes and harumphed, "It's not for smoking in here, brother, I am giving them out because I have good news to share." He generally kept his smoking habit outside unless there was a room set aside for such a habit, not that he smoked a lot. He did like to enjoy his pipe every now and then. "I've gotten a position in the local schoolhouse to be a teacher of the older students, which pleases me to no end. I didn't know when I accepted the position that you lived here now, I haven't quite been in touch with the family since I have been in Bath and other places. I've been busy trying to juggle my studies and get a house ready so mother could have her sewing room at last."