Drin' from the bottle.' Joshua did so, and his father pushed up the bottom of the vessel so as to make him swallow a good deal in spite of himself.

It went down into his stomach like molten lead.
'Ha, ha, that's right!' said old Halborough.

'But 'twas raw spirit--ha, ha!' 'Why should you take me in so!' said Joshua, losing his self-command, try as he would to keep calm.
'Because you took me in, my lad, in banishing me to that cursed country under pretence that it was for my good.

You were a pair of hypocrites to say so.

It was done to get rid of me--no more nor less.