"Persuade him, sir?" she returned. "Lord bless you, no. You don't know George. Now, there!" Mrs. Bagnet left her basket to point him out with both her bare brown hands. "There he stands! As self-willed and as determined a man, in the wrong way, as ever put a human creature under heaven out of patience! You could as soon take up and shoulder an eight and forty pounder by your own strength as turn that man when he has got a thing into his head and fixed it there. Why, don't I know him!" 
"Persuade him, sir?" she returned. "Lord bless you, no. You don't know George. As self-willed and as determined a man, in the wrong way, as ever put a human creature under heaven out of patience! 