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"Then, the motive is not hers and we must look elsewhere for it." "If you mean she is only a tool," said I, "that is almost as unlikely as revenge." "On the contrary, why couldn't it be both and, also, a big pile of money?" he asked. "Because," said I, "she would balk at the notoriety." Courtney laughed. "Good, yellow gold, and plenty of it, is a wonderful persuader."
The persuader seeks to discover the obstacles to agreement with him in the minds of others and to remove or nullify them. This he will attempt, if he is wise and practical, only in a limited group or among those who are keen-minded and open to reason. Even with them he will have to kindle and maintain their interest, and he must arouse a favorable emotional state.
"Merchant," answered Gabriel, bluntly. "What do you say? You dare to answer your master? Are you going to be impertinent? I'll teach you! Where's the persuader?" and the master strode up to his seat, and, diving down into his desk, began routing about in it. At this moment the passage door opened, and an extraordinary and most unscholarly looking head intruded itself into the room.
But for that gentle persuader they must have tossed, unsoothed, the night through; for the whiskey was for me. Yes, they would have risen in the morning unfitted for their heavy task. As it was, everybody slept but my agent and me only we and the barkeepers. I would not permit myself to sleep at such a time. I considered myself responsible for all those lives.
Then he said: "I will give you an answer in twenty-four hours. Will that do, sweet persuader?" "It might do," she answered, and, strange to say, she had a sure feeling that he would say yes, in spite of her knowledge that, in his heart of hearts, he hated Calhoun. As she left the room, Lord Mallow stood for a moment looking after her. "She loves the rogue in spite of all!" he said bitterly.
"This Villiers," said Leicester, "is a most vile traitorous knave, and doth abuse a young nobleman here extremely, the Count Maurice. For all his religion, he is a more earnest persuader secretly to have him yield to a reconciliation than Sainte Aldegonde was. He shall not tarry ten days neither in Holland nor Zeeland.
If you happen to be pussyfooting forward erect and encounter a German patrol, it is policy to scuttle back unless you are near enough to get in one good lick with the persuader. He will retreat slowly himself, and you mustn't follow him. Because: The British patrol usually goes out singly or at the most in pairs or threes. The Germans, on the other hand, hunt in parties. One man leads.
To be the persuader, the beggar of good and bad, high and low to beg year in and year out, cold and warmth, summer and winter, sunrise, noon and sunset, calm and storm, beg of galleon and beg of carrack, yea, beg of cockboat! To see your family go needy, to be doubted by wife and child and brethren and friends and acquaintance!
Behind these there may be kindliness, charity, and all the milder gifts of virtue; but what is apparent is a sort of energetic, manly trenchancy which forces admiration rather than awakens sympathy. When speaking at length on any occasion he is eloquent, but with the eloquence of the dictator, and sometimes of the logician, rather than that of the persuader.
How to acquire the most perfect control over the most vicious and wildest horse, in a short time, without the use of drugs or charms, is by going according to receipts No. 305 and No. 306, and sometimes you may have to use the persuader. How to break the wildest colt in a short time, so that a boy of 14 years old can ride or handle him in perfect safety.
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