I cannot say more than that." He turned and walked unconcernedly out, thinking that it was too bad to lose the support of so respectable a man, but also that he could do without it.

It was silly the way parents insisted on their daughters being something that they did not wish to be.
Haguenin stood by his desk after Cowperwood had gone, wondering where he should get one hundred thousand dollars quickly, and also what he should do to make his daughter see the error of her ways.

It was an astonishing blow he had received, he thought, in the house of a friend.
It occurred to him that Walter Melville Hyssop, who was succeeding mightily with his two papers, might come to his rescue, and that later he could repay him when the Press was more prosperous.

He went out to his house in a quandary concerning life and chance; while Cowperwood went to the Chicago Trust Company to confer with Videra, and later out to his own home to consider how he should equalize this loss.

The state and fate of Cecily Haguenin was not of so much importance as many other things on his mind at this time.
Far more serious were his cogitations with regard to a liaison he had recently ventured to establish with Mrs.Hosmer Hand, wife of an eminent investor and financier.