"How much do you want to let us go?
How much have we got to pay you to be ALLOWED to use our own ploughs--what's your figure?
Come, spit it out." "I see you are trying to make me angry, Harran," returned S.Behrman, "but you won't succeed.

Better give up trying, my boy.

As I said, the best way is to have the railroad and the farmer get along amicably.

It is the only way we can do business.

Well, s'long, Governor, I must trot along.