Dew and mildew Author:Percival Christopher Wren Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: STOEY THE THIED. A SCHOLAR AND A GENTLEMAN. Mb. Eamswami Ganganath Dagga was a very interesting personage, whether viewed as a repulsively ugly and filthy ... more »mendicant, ash-smeared, sitting in the dust of the road-side ; as a religious preceptor, as a politician of parts and power, as a reincarnation of a deity, as a vile and ruffianly swindler, as a philosopher, or as a Graduate of the University of Cambridge and successful candidate for the Examination for admission to His Majesty's Indian Civil Service. For Mr. Dagga was all these and much more. Unfortunately, the most remarkable of the doings of Mr. Eamswami cannot be told, as they do not bear telling, but a certain interest, as hinted, attaches to many that can. Master Eamswami Ganganath Dagga first saw the light in a little mud-walled village, of which his papa was the priest. Papa was indeed of the priesthood priestly, for he was about the one-hundredth of his race who had ministered unto the spiritual needs of the villagers of that same village. And a very holy man was Ganganath Ram- chandra Dagga, and a greatly respected, as being both that and a determined and prosperous scoundrel. Admiration and regard were his portion in meed of his intimacy with the Gods, his subtilty in villainy, and his unweariness in ill-doing. Justification by Faith was his and Justification by the success of his Works. So, before his fellows he walked not humbly, for they praised both ; and before his Gods he walked not delicately, for Works interested them not at all. A type of crime that had never been committed nor hatched nor condoned, connived at, abetted, instigated, nor attempted by Papa Dagga would be a very choice and novel article indeed. He possessed no heart, a great brain, a greater stomach, no conscience, and a very h...« less