The fixtures for the gas-jets were modeled after the early Roman flame-brackets, and the office safe was made an ornament, raised on a marble platform at the back of the office and lacquered a silver-gray, with Cowperwood & Co.
lettered on it in gold.

One had a sense of reserve and taste pervading the place, and yet it was also inestimably prosperous, solid and assuring.

Cowperwood, when he viewed it at its completion, complimented Ellsworth cheerily.

"I like this.

It is really beautiful.