"With pleasure.

I would not come here at all if I did not feel that I had a perfectly legitimate proposition--one that the press of the city should unite in supporting.

Where a corporation such as ours is facing large expenditures, which have to be financed by outside capital, it is only natural that we should wish to allay useless, groundless opposition in advance.

I hope we may command your support." "I hope you may," smiled Mr.Haguenin.

They parted the best of friends.
The other publishers, guardians of the city's privileges, were not quite so genial as Haguenin in their approval of Cowperwood's proposition.