financier--Chapter III
It was in his thirteenth year that young Cowperwood entered into hisfirst business venture. Walking along Front Street one day, a street ofimporting and wholesale establishments, he saw an auctioneer’s flaghanging out before a wholesale grocery and from the interior came theauctioneer’s voice: “What am I bid for this exceptional lot of Javacoffee, twenty-two bags all told,...
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