There was a good deal to this home idea, after all.

That was the way life was organized, and properly so--its cornerstone was the home.
It would be impossible to indicate fully how subtle were the material changes which these years involved--changes so gradual that they were, like the lap of soft waters, unnoticeable.

Considerable--a great deal, considering how little he had to begin with--wealth was added in the next five years.

He came, in his financial world, to know fairly intimately, as commercial relationships go, some of the subtlest characters of the steadily enlarging financial world.

In his days at Tighe's and on the exchange, many curious figures had been pointed out to him--State and city officials of one grade and another who were "making something out of politics," and some national figures who came from Washington to Philadelphia at times to see Drexel & Co., Clark & Co., and even Tighe & Co.