On the other hand, there were ingrates, uncompromising or pharasaical religionists and reformers, plotting, scheming rivals, who found him deadly to contend with.

There were many henchmen--runners from an almost imperial throne--to do his bidding.

He was simple in dress and taste, married and (apparently) very happy, a professing though virtually non-practising Catholic, a suave, genial Buddha-like man, powerful and enigmatic.
When Cowperwood and McKenty first met, it was on a spring evening at the latter's home.

The windows of the large house were pleasantly open, though screened, and the curtains were blowing faintly in a light air.

Along with a sense of the new green life everywhere came a breath of stock-yards.
On the presentation of Addison's letter and of another, secured through Van Sickle from a well-known political judge, Cowperwood had been invited to call.