He was now the head of the firm, and one of the first business men of the city.

He seemed a great deal older than he was; thirty-seven is young to occupy the place he held.
Such a _parti_ could not be let alone entirely.

His course was certainly discouraging, and it needs tough hopes to live on nothing.

But stranger things had happened; more obdurate men had yielded; and unappropriated loveliness hoped on.

The story of an early attachment was afloat in connection with his name.