smooth with the rough of it
(Blacking her own boots and peeling her own potatoes
was not her notion of connubial bliss),
Mrs. Blake began to find that she had pretty nearly had
enough of it,
And came, in course of time, to think that Blake's own
original line of conduct wasn't so much amiss.
And now that wicked person—that detestable sinner
("Belial Blake" his friends and well-wishers call