At once he decided, as he told his wife joyously, to remove his family from 21 Buttonwood Street to 124 New Market Street, a much better neighborhood, where there was a nice brick house of three stories in height as opposed to their present two-storied domicile.

There was the probability that some day they would come into something even better, but for the present this was sufficient.

He was exceedingly grateful.
Henry Worthington Cowperwood was a man who believed only what he saw and was content to be what he was--a banker, or a prospective one.

He was at this time a significant figure--tall, lean, inquisitorial, clerkly--with nice, smooth, closely-cropped side whiskers coming to almost the lower lobes of his ears.

His upper lip was smooth and curiously long, and he had a long, straight nose and a chin that tended to be pointed.