He was behaving with much amiability, and trying in all ways at his command to get himself into easy domestication with his children--entering into Mirah's music, showing himself docile about smoking, which Mrs. Adam could not tolerate in her parlor, and walking out in the square with his German pipe, and the tobacco with which Mirah supplied him. 
He was behaving amiably, and trying to get himself into easy domestication with his children - entering into Mirah's music, showing himself docile about smoking, and walking out in the square with his pipe and the tobacco which Mirah gave him. 