Theodore Dreiser

had a soft voice, a quiet, conservative manner, and both in and out of this brokerage and trading world was controlled by good form

had only finished the third year in high school; but he had had enough

He was not destined to be a great financier, though he was marked out to be a moderately successful one.

Those large, clear gray eyes were full of intelligence. They indicated much and revealed nothing.

People think what you want them to think.

Her smile was something like a hat or belt or ornament which one puts on or off at will.

The strongest have their hours of depression.

How little all else mattered where he was concerned.

he had anticipated it so long that the charm of it had been discounted to a certain extent.

He was at this time a significant figure—tall, lean, inquisitorial, clerkly—with nice, smooth, closely-cropped side whiskers coming to almost the lower lobes of his ears