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  • financier--Chapter V
      The following October, having passed his eighteenth year by nearly sixmonths, and feeling sure that he would never want anything to do withthe grain and commission business as conducted by the Waterman Company,Cowperwood decided to sever his relations with them and enter theemploy of Tighe & Company, bankers and brokers. Cowperwood’s meeting with Tighe & Company had come...
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  • financier--Chapter IV
    The appearance of Frank Cowperwood at this time was, to say the least,prepossessing and satisfactory. Nature had destined him to be aboutfive feet ten inches tall. His head was large, shapely, notablycommercial in aspect, thickly covered with crisp, dark-brown hair andfixed on a pair of square shoulders and a stocky body. Already his eyeshad the look that subtle years of thought bring. They...
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  • 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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  • financier--Chapter II
      The growth of young Frank Algernon Cowperwood was through years of whatmight be called a comfortable and happy family existence. ButtonwoodStreet, where he spent the first ten years of his life, was a lovelyplace for a boy to live. It contained mostly small two and three-storyred brick houses, with small white marble steps leading up to the frontdoor, and thin, white marble trimmings...
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  • financier--Chapter I
    The Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was born was acity of two hundred and fifty thousand and more. It was set withhandsome parks, notable buildings, and crowded with historic memories.Many of the things that we and he knew later were not then inexistence—the telegraph, telephone, express company, ocean steamer,city delivery of mails. There were no postage-stamps or...
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