Changing Horizons The effect of all this was to arouse in Cowperwood the keenest feelings of superiority he had ever yet enjoyed.

Hitherto he had fancied that his enemies might worst him, but at last his path seemed clear.

He was now worth, all in all, the round sum of twenty million dollars.

His art-collection had become the most important in the West--perhaps in the nation, public collections excluded.

He began to envision himself as a national figure, possibly even an international one.