As
Richard watched him, he found himself understanding a little Matthew
Kendrick's extraordinary success. If his personality was still one to
make a powerful impression on all who came in contact with him, what
must it have been, Richard speculated, in his prime, in those wonderful
years when he was building the great business, expanding it with a
daring of conception and a rapidity of execution which had fairly taken
away the breath of his contemporaries. He had introduced new methods,
laid down new principles, defied old systems, and created better ones
having no precedent anywhere but in his own productive brain. It might
justly be said that he had virtually revolutionized the mercantile
world, for when the bridges that he built were found to hold, in spite
of all dire prophecy to the contrary, others had crossed them, too, and
profited by his bridge building.
The three young men did their best to lead Mr. Kendrick to talk of
himself, but of that he would do little. Constantly he spoke of the work
of his associates, and when it became necessary to allude to himself it
was always as if they had been identified with every move of his own.
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