Then she walked away with rich, sinuous, healthy strides--the type that men turn to look after.
"That's her--that's that Butler girl," observed one railroad clerk to another.

"Gee! a man wouldn't want anything better than that, would he ?" It was the spontaneous tribute that passion and envy invariably pay to health and beauty.

On that pivot swings the world.
Never in all his life until this trip had Cowperwood been farther west than Pittsburg.

His amazing commercial adventures, brilliant as they were, had been almost exclusively confined to the dull, staid world of Philadelphia, with its sweet refinement in sections, its pretensions to American social supremacy, its cool arrogation of traditional leadership in commercial life, its history, conservative wealth, unctuous respectability, and all the tastes and avocations which these imply.

He had, as he recalled, almost mastered that pretty world and made its sacred precincts his own when the crash came.