The wedding was very well attended.

Mrs.Hand began to give house-parties, teas, musicales, and receptions on a lavish scale.
Cowperwood never met either her or her husband until he was well launched on his street-car programme.

Needing two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in a hurry, and finding the Chicago Trust Company, the Lake City Bank, and other institutions heavily loaded with his securities, he turned in a moment of inspirational thought to Hand.
Cowperwood was always a great borrower.

His paper was out in large quantities.

He introduced himself frequently to powerful men in this way, taking long or short loans at high or low rates of interest, as the case might be, and sometimes finding some one whom he could work with or use.