I'd like to see your bank have the interest." So Cowperwood, Sr., was convinced.

There was no gainsaying this argument.

His bank was loaning Frank heavily, but not more so than any other.

And as for the great blocks of stocks he was carrying in his son's companies, he was to be told when to get out should that prove necessary.

Frank's brothers were being aided in the same way to make money on the side, and their interests were also now bound up indissolubly with his own.
With his growing financial opportunities, however, Cowperwood had also grown very liberal in what might be termed his standard of living.
Certain young art dealers in Philadelphia, learning of his artistic inclinations and his growing wealth, had followed him up with suggestions as to furniture, tapestries, rugs, objects of art, and paintings--at first the American and later the foreign masters exclusively.