I bore with her abuse of the Friday's salt fish and hard eggs--with her invective against the soup, the bread, the coffee--with some patience for a time; but at last, wearied by iteration, I turned crusty, and put her to rights: a thing I ought to have done in the very beginning, for a salutary setting down always agreed with her.
Much longer had I to endure her demands on me in the way of work.

Her wardrobe, so far as concerned articles of external wear, was well and elegantly supplied; but there were other habiliments not so carefully provided: what she had, needed frequent repair.

She hated needle-drudgery herself, and she would bring her hose, &c.

to me in heaps, to be mended.

A compliance of some weeks threatening to result in the establishment of an intolerable bore--I at last distinctly told her she must make up her mind to mend her own garments.