"I shall answer no questions about it, Kate." Then a fit of coughing came upon him, his four glasses of wine having been all taken, and there was no further talk about business. During the evening Kate read a chapter of the Bible out loud. But the Squire was very impatient under the reading, and positively refused permission for a second. "There isn't any good in so much of it, all at once," he said, using almost exactly the same words which Kate had used to him about the port wine. There may have been good produced by the small quantity to which he listened, as there is good from the physic which children take with wry faces, most unwillingly. Who can say?

"I shall answer no questions about it, Kate." Then a fit of coughing came upon him, and there was no further talk.
During the evening Kate read a chapter of the Bible out loud. But the Squire was very impatient. "There isn't any good in so much of it, all at once." 