So ran his dream.

And Isaac believed in his dream, and what was more, he had made Mr.Richard Pilkington, Financial Agent, of Shaftesbury Avenue, believe in it.
"Rickman's," backed by Pilkington, would stand firm, firm as a rock.
Courage and capital are great, but brains are greater.

It was not only by shrewdness, energy and an incomparable audacity that Isaac Rickman had raised himself from those obscure beginnings.

Isaac was an artist in his own enormous way, and he had made an exhaustive study of the Public.

With incredible versatility he followed every twist and turn of the great mind; the slow colossal movements which make capital, the fitful balancing, the sudden start and mad rush forward by which, if you can but foresee and keep pace with it, you reap the golden harvest of the hour.