I am only waiting to bring the old squire around." Gordon shook his head.
"My father says you mistake his hospitality for yielding," he said.

"You will never get him to consent to your plan." Rhodes laughed.
"Oh, won't I! I have had these old countrymen to deal with before.

Just give them time and show them the greenbacks.

He will come around.

Wait until I dangle the shekels before him." But Mr.Rhodes found that in that provincial field there were some things stronger than shekels.