Susan in NC’s Reviews > The Financier > Status Update
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“… as he stepped out into the overseer's room again he experienced a peculiar sense of depression…This, then, was what society did to the criminal, he thought to himself. It took him and tore away from his body and his life the habiliments of his proper state and left him these. He felt sad and grim, and, try as he would—he could not help showing it for a moment…He felt degraded, impossible, in these clothes..”
— Jan 26, 2026 05:31PM
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Susan in NC
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“He had studied the receipts of the New York Clearing House recently and the disposition of bank–balances and the shipment of gold, and had seen that vast quantities of the latter metal were going to Chicago. He understood finance accurately. The meaning of gold shipments was clear. Where money was going trade was—a thriving, developing life. He wished to see clearly for himself what this world had to offer.”
— Jan 27, 2026 10:59AM
Susan in NC
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“… "this is the end. I am going West, and going into some other line of business." He thought of street–railways, land speculation, some great manufacturing project of some kind, even mining, on a legitimate basis. "I have had my lesson," he said to himself, finally getting up and preparing to leave. "I am as rich as I was, and only a little older. They caught me once, but they will not catch me again."”
— Jan 27, 2026 10:58AM
Susan in NC
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“ Failures such as this, and disasters such as the Chicago fire, that had overtaken him two years before, had cured him of all love of the stock exchange and all feeling for Philadelphia. He had been very unhappy here in spite of all his previous happiness; and his experience as a convict had made, him, he could see quite plainly, unacceptable to the element with whom he had once hoped to associate.”
— Jan 27, 2026 10:56AM
Susan in NC
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“ By Monday afternoon at three o'clock he figured that, all losses and uncertainties to one side, he was once more a millionaire, and that now his future lay clear and straight before him.” !!!
— Jan 27, 2026 10:55AM
Susan in NC
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“… failures in New York posted on 'change, strengthened the cause Cowperwood was so much interested in; for he was selling as high as he could and buying as low as he could on a constantly sinking scale. By twelve o'clock he figured with his assistants that he had cleared one hundred thousand dollars; and by three o'clock he had two hundred thousand dollars more.”
— Jan 27, 2026 10:55AM
Susan in NC
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“ From New York was coming momentarily more news of disaster. Over there banks and trust companies were falling like trees in a hurricane. Cowperwood in his perambulations, seeing what he could see and hearing hearing what he could hear, reaching understandings which were against the rules of the exchange, but which were nevertheless in accord with what every other person was doing…”
— Jan 27, 2026 10:25AM
Susan in NC
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“…as he predicted, the excitement did not end with the coming of the night. The crowd lingered in front of Jay Cooke & Co.'s on Third Street and in front of other institutions, waiting apparently for some development…For the initiated the center of debate and agitation was Green's Hotel, where on the evening of the eighteenth the lobby and corridors were crowded with bankers, brokers, and speculators.”
— Jan 27, 2026 10:23AM
Susan in NC
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“Among these panic–struck men Cowperwood was perfectly calm, deadly cold, the same Cowperwood who had pegged solemnly at his ten chairs each day in prison, who had baited his traps for rats, and worked in the little garden allotted him in utter silence and loneliness. Now he was vigorous and energetic.”
— Jan 27, 2026 10:20AM
Susan in NC
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“Now the crash had come. The grief and the rage of the public would be intense. For days and days and weeks and months, normal confidence and courage would be gone. This was his hour. This was his great moment. Like a wolf prowling under glittering, bitter stars in the night, he was looking down into the humble folds of simple men and seeing what their ignorance and their unsophistication would cost them.” !!
— Jan 27, 2026 10:09AM
Susan in NC
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“ His instinct told him how widespread and enduring this panic would be. The Northern Pacific was a hundred–million–dollar venture. It involved the savings of hundreds of thousands of people—small bankers, tradesmen, preachers, lawyers, doctors, widows, institutions all over the land, and all resting on the faith and security of Jay Cooke.”
— Jan 27, 2026 10:08AM
