So, after all, your requiring capital is no great misfortune; you must look out for a working capitalist.

No sleeping partner will serve your turn; what you want is a good rich, vulgar, energetic man, the pachydermatouser the better." Henry acted on this advice, and went to London in search of a moneyed partner.

Oh, then it was he learned-- "The hell it is in suing long to bide." He found capitalists particularly averse to speculate in a patent.

It took him many days to find out what moneyed men were open to that sort of thing at all; and, when he got to them, they were cold.
They had all been recently bitten by harebrained inventors.
Then he represented that it was a matter of judgment, and offered to prove by figures that his saw-grinding machines must return three hundred per cent.

These he applied to would not take the trouble to study his figures.