The big stocks of the East were gambled in by way of leased wires on the New York Stock Exchange--not otherwise.
As he looked at these men, all pleasantly civil, all general in their remarks, each safely keeping his vast plans under his vest, Cowperwood wondered how he would fare in this community.

There were such difficult things ahead of him to do.

No one of these men, all of whom were in their commercial-social way agreeable, knew that he had only recently been in the penitentiary.

How much difference would that make in their attitude?
No one of them knew that, although he was married and had two children, he was planning to divorce his wife and marry the girl who had appropriated to herself the role which his wife had once played.
"Are you seriously contemplating looking into the Northwest ?" asked Mr.
Rambaud, interestedly, toward the close of the luncheon.
"That is my present plan after I finish here.

I thought I'd take a short run up there." "Let me put you in touch with an interesting party that is going as far as Fargo and Duluth.