Take your time.

We can afford to wait." "And suppose the next commission is a railroad board, and reverses all our figures ?" The one-time mining king, the most redoubtable poker player of Calaveras County, permitted himself a momentary twinkle of his eyes.
"By then it will be too late.

We will, all of us, have made our fortunes by then." The remark left Presley astonished out of all measure He never could accustom himself to these strange lapses in the Governor's character.
Magnus was by nature a public man, judicious, deliberate, standing firm for principle, yet upon rare occasion, by some such remark as this, he would betray the presence of a sub-nature of recklessness, inconsistent, all at variance with his creeds and tenets.
At the very bottom, when all was said and done, Magnus remained the Forty-niner.

Deep down in his heart the spirit of the Adventurer yet persisted.

"We will all of us have made fortunes by then." That was it precisely.