He felt as might one who has been staring at the sun.

Storri's picture of an enterprise so vast that it proposed to set out the world like a mighty pan of milk, and skim the cream from two hemispheres, dazzled him and caused his wits to lose their way.
At the end of three days Mr.Harley had begun to get his bearings; he was still fascinated, but the fog was lifting.

Step by step he went over Storri's grand proposals; and, while he had now his eyes, each step seemed only to take him more deeply into a wilderness of admiration.
That very admiration filled him with a sense of dull alarm.

He resolved to have other counsel than his own.

Were he and Storri to embark upon this world-girdling enterprise, they must have money-help.