Try easy now.' He tried easy now; but the luck resisted; wouldn't come.
'I mean to have it, and the boat too,' said Mr Inspector, playing the line.
But still the luck resisted; wouldn't come.
'Take care,' said Riderhood.

'You'll disfigure.

Or pull asunder perhaps.' 'I am not going to do either, not even to your Grandmother,' said Mr Inspector; 'but I mean to have it.

Come!' he added, at once persuasively and with authority to the hidden object in the water, as he played the line again; 'it's no good this sort of game, you know.

You MUST come up.
I mean to have you.' There was so much virtue in this distinctly and decidedly meaning to have it, that it yielded a little, even while the line was played.
'I told you so,' quoth Mr Inspector, pulling off his outer coat, and leaning well over the stern with a will.